Date: | 04 19 1932 |
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Description: | Exterior of the Hub clothing store, located at 22-24 West Mifflin Street. A sign reads: "Society Brand Clothes and Florsheim Shoes." Second floor windows h... |
Date: | 08 17 1933 |
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Description: | Crowd assembled outside the RKO Orpheum Theatre to watch "Tugboat Annie" on MGM's traveling theatre. Speths Clothing and other businesses in the 200 block ... |
Date: | 09 18 1952 |
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Description: | A new home, at 4326 De Volis Parkway, ready for the "Parade of Homes" show. The house was built by Ace Construction Company. |
Date: | 02 04 1943 |
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Description: | Six Chevrolet automobiles (possibly taxies) and 10 drivers holding pledge cards outside the side entrance to Friede Storage Garage (previously known as Pur... |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | State Street view looking east from Johnson Street, towards the Wisconsin State Capitol. On the corner on the left is Glasgow Tailers, and further up the b... |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | Daisy Bates and others at Woolworth's boycott. |
Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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Description: | Richard Ela Company, 744 Williamson Street, selling industrial and welding equipment and supplies and Hanley Implement Company, 740 Williamson Street, sell... |
Date: | 01 23 1930 |
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Description: | Snow-dusted Eastwood Theatre, 2090 Atwood Avenue with "The Viking" and "Skin Deep - Coming Soon" on the marquee. |
Date: | 01 22 1928 |
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Description: | The intersection of Atwood Avenue and Winnebago Street known as Schenk's Corners, with the columned Security State Bank building at the center junction of ... |
Date: | 06 14 1927 |
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Description: | Storefronts of the Wisconsin School of Music, East Side Variety Store and Hess Grocery Market. Owned by the Hess family, this property was located at 154 A... |
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: | 1915 |
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Description: | Two men playing baseball for semi-pro teams in a Milwaukee ballpark. |
Date: | 1959 |
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Description: | Filling station sign reading: "smile," purposely put upside down. A young woman is bending over to read it. |
Date: | 05 18 1919 |
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Description: | Scene from Poale Zion Chasidim, an Americanization pageant held in the Milwaukee auditorium to welcome Milwaukee's new citizens. |
Date: | |
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Description: | View across water towards the Sheboygan Lake steamboat out on the water, with several passengers visible on the deck. |
Date: | 1888 |
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Description: | Charles Pfeifer stands on the entrance steps to the drugstore with his wife Emma Pfeifer, who holds a baby. Other children and adults pose with them. |
Date: | 1888 |
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Description: | Exterior view of Charles Pfeifer's Drugstore, founded in 1858. From left to right are Charles Pfeifer, Fred Pfeifer, Mrs. Adam Heeb, Fulda Pfeifer, Mrs. Ch... |
Date: | 1888 |
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Description: | Three men stand under the iconic mortar and pestle and striped awnings of E.A. Horn's Drugstore. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Milwaukee's City Hall. Signs on the building read "Sinfonietta" and "Concert Tonight." |
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