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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Popular bathing beaches like this one on Lake Michigan offered relief from the heat as well as the opportunity to be seen in the latest fashions of the 191... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater. |
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| Description: | Men, women and children soaking up the sun on the beach of a lake (probably Lake Michigan). The children are digging in the sand in the foreground, and the... |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water towards a building at the top of a steep incline, with a small group of people to the left. On top of the hill to the right are ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a tugboat, with possibly a sinking ship in the background. |
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| Description: | A group of people on a sailboat sailing towards a group of people who are waving from a concrete embankment. |
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| Description: | Passenger ship "Christopher Columbus," which is full of people on multiple decks, along the shore of the city of Milwaukee. Buildings and a second ship are... |
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| Description: | Cars are parked on the right near the water. Two people are sitting at a picnic table near the shoreline, and a third person is holding a pot over a campfi... |
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| Description: | A group of women and girls and one man are sitting outside on benches and chairs sewing clothes and talking. On the right, a woman has a baby stroller besi... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards oncrete locks on a narrow river in winter. Snow is on the ground, and a water tower and smokestack are on the other side of the... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of lake, in the upper left. A town with dwellings and other buildings are along the shoreline. Part of the airplane is on the right. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a grain ship on the Kinnickinnic River. There are industrial buildings in the background. |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of bay shoreline, with dwellings along the bank. A few boats are in the river. In the background is a factory with a smokestack and railroad ... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a cluster of old dwellings in the center, with broken shacks and rusted cars. In the background are railroad cars, and an industrial area ... |
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| Description: | A large wave is breaking against the side of the Milwaukee breakwater lighthouse. There is a ship on the left, in the distance beyond the jetty. |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children sitting and walking on the shore of a lake, possibly Lake Michigan, near a partially constructed pier. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of downtown Milwaukee riverbank before the First National Bank was built in 1914. Advertising painted on the sides of buildings includes B. Mock & So... |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor standing on a lake pier with either his son Frederick or Robert. Both of them are wearing swimming suits, and a boat is underneath the pie... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of men and women disembarking from the "Yankee Boy" boat on what appears to be a lake pier, with rowboats on the near shoreline, an... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A woman, possibly Alma Reinhardt Taylor, wearing a long coat, and a young boy and toddler walking along the rocky shoreline of what is probably Lake Michig... |
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