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| Date: | 02 21 1882 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph poster advertising a Milwaukee Mardi Gras celebration, arranged by the Turnverein and Milwaukee Musical Societies, and held at the Exposit... |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| 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: | 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: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye views of various sections of Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee with prominent streets and buildings identified. Taken from City Hall Tower. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee on Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map, looking west from shoreline on Lake Michigan of Milwaukee to Golden Lake in Waukesha County, with Kenosha and Fox Point at bottom corners, ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee from Bay View. |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye illustration of Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Milwaukee Willow Works, a manufacturer of children's carriages, willow ware, and toys, with a three-quarter view of the company building,... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Plankinton Packing Company, a pork and beef packer and provision dealer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Includes an elevated view of the company b... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Milwaukee Dry Dock Company, which operated two docks, with a view of a dock with ships, planks of wood, buildings, and the slogan, "Electri... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee from the south lakeshore. |
| Date: | 06 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of North and South Harbor Tracts, looking north from South Pier No. 2. There are skyscrapers in the background. there are multiple items of mac... |
| Date: | 11 23 1930 |
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| Description: | Full page illustrated article in the Milwaukee Journal titled "The World Voyagers go Round The Globe by Radio and Roto." Included are photographs an... |
| Date: | 08 2007 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the Apomattox's floor keelsons near the bow. |
| Date: | 2006 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of a propeller located off of the Appomattox wreck site, near Shorewood, in Lake Michigan. The diver is Kimm Stabelfeldt. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Cudahy showing stock yards and the Cudahy packing houses. A train runs through the center of the image on the Chicago & Northwestern Rai... |
| Date: | 05 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a large ship with a considerable amount of dark smoke coming from the rear. The ship appears to be heading toward a large field of coal buil... |
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