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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn fire wagon coming down a cobblestone street in Milwaukee. The fact that automobiles are also in the photograph suggests that the transition to ... |
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| Description: | A motorcyclist drives down the middle of the road, possibly in a race, as a crowd looks on. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Sandlot baseball game in front of a house and several outbuildings, all in dilapidated condition. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Street cars and busy pedestrian traffic mingle in this view of the 200 West Water Street block in downtown Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | On-lookers observing an accident, in downtown Milwaukee, of the Hamman's Express Line, piano and furniture mover. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A steam fire engine of Milwaukee's Fire Company #2 drawn by three white horses racing to a fire. Prior motor driven fire equipment was a greater danger tha... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Milwaukee County Zoo grounds nearing its completion. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View looking west from Lake Michigan with several steam ships and sailing vessels in harbor. There is a lighthouse to left of center, along shoreline. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view down Wisconsin Avenue looking west, with the RKO Riverside Theatre on the right, and a large Christmas sign on the corner of a building on th... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Turner Hall in Milwaukee with horse-drawn wagon passing. |
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| Description: | Exterior view across road towards the Blatz Brewery. There is a large tree in front of the building. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Grand Avenue. A number of horse-drawn carriages are lined up near a bridge. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of exterior of Plankinton House from across the street. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of buildings and street traffic. |
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| Description: | Elevated view down Wisconsin from Broadway of buildings, street traffic and bridge in distance. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View looking up Grand Avenue from 9th Street toward two horse-drawn wagons and a horse-drawn streetcar on the tree-lined street. The wagon on the right is ... |
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