Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a farmer's market with horse-drawn vehicles. One man is leading a bull down the street. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Elevated view of buildings and street traffic. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Elevated view of West Water Street from Grand Avenue of horse-drawn vehicles, pedestrians, buildings, storefronts and power lines. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | German Market on the right side of the street in the distance. Two horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground are heading toward the market. Pedestrians are wa... |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Horse pulling a wagon in front of the telephone building. There are many telephone poles and wires along the street. |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Elevated view taken from the Miller Building, which is the original site of the old Milwaukee House. In the center of the foreground is what used to be ca... |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Northwest corner of Grand Avenue and 4th Street. Built in 1854 at a cost of $18,000. The storefronts were added in 1868; the building razed in 1886. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | It was in this shop that Christopher Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, did much of his work on various inventions. This photograph may be as early as th... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Elevated view of river looking north from the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge. A pier with a small building and poster boards extends into the water from the bott... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph. Located on Oneida Street, the opera house is three stories tall, and located across the street from a pharmacy (the Rx sign is hanging above t... |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Stereograph. The Plankinton House is in the near foreground across the street. A sign for Little Dry Goods, 105, is on the left, above a horse-drawn cart. |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Engraved letterhead of the firm of Smith, Mendel & Co., a wholesale grocery merchant. William E. Smith was a prominent Milwaukee businessman, partner in th... |
Date: | 06 10 1880 |
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Description: | Elevated group portrait of the veterans of the First Wisconsin Calvary. They are standing in rows in the street. Horses with wagons are behind them, and a ... |
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