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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man is posing with his left hand resting on the trunk of the General Grant Giant Elm, S.E. of intersection of Green Bay and Good Hope Roads. At site of P... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The smokestack is several inches out of plumb, which was the reason the photographer took the photograph. Located on a waterfront. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A sketch of an aspect of the waterworks. Text reads "Typical PFT "Downes" Floating Cover Installation." |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A planning sketch of the sewage disposal plant. |
| Date: | 06 1937 |
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| Description: | A planning sketch of the sewage treatment site. The sketch is signed "A Deimel" and dated "June 1936." The text at the bottom of the sketch reads "Sewage T... |
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| Description: | The interior of the sewage treatment plant laboratory. A microscope and many glass beakers are sitting on the counter. |
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| Description: | A scientist leans over a microscope in the sewage treatment plant laboratory. Glass beakers and other tools and equipment are sitting on the counter. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company, with a three-quarter view of a man driving an electric cable car marked "State St." under a... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of downtown Milwaukee, with Lake Michigan in the background. The eight story 1920 addition to the Boston Store is in the foreground, ident... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from intersection towards a taxi and several other automobiles parked in front of the Brumder Building. Flags and flag-inspired bunting decorate the f... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of Grand (now Wisconsin) Avenue near 18th Street from the second floor of the home of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder. Snow is covering th... |
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