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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View along the river, with a raised bridge with a steamboat passing through. The river lined by buildings on both sides. A clocktower is in the background.... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Colored view of the river lined with buildings. The drawbridge is raised as a steamboat is passing through. There is a clocktower in the background. Captio... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View down the avenue. A large crowd of people on are on the left in front of a storefront, and several horse-drawn vehicles are on the right. Two men are ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Looking east from 5th Street. Road lined with buildings, and pedestrians crowd the sidewalks. Horse-drawn vehicles and a trolley are on the road. Caption r... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | West from Third Street. Advertising signs for Schlitz, People's Credit Clothing Co., Peoples Dentist, and other businesses line the buildings along the roa... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View across intersection toward the corner of Wisconsin Street and Cass Street. The hotel has several floors, awnings on all the windows on one side, and a... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Five story building with a flag with the hotel's name on it flying from the roof. Several people, a car, and a trolley are in front. |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | 1020 North Broadway, main facade photographed from the Northwest. Building right next to the Milwaukee School of Engineers. Signs labeling the buildings a... |
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| Description: | Panoramic view from the top of a building. Home of Merchants and Manufacturers' Association of Milwaukee. Building is in the center of the image, with two ... |
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| Description: | Three boats on right. Left side has two buildings and small boats in fog. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Exterior of building. A large advertising sign is on the right side, behind a large smokestack. A smaller sign stating "For Rent O.J. Schenck" has been h... |
| Date: | 03 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi and the NAACP Youth Council demonstrating outside the Eagles Club at night beneath a marquee advertising a Duke Ellington performance. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A large crowd is gathered along a sidewalk, spilling onto the road, in front of the station. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Stereograph; caption on the image is incorrect as to the street locations. Actually located at the intersection of North Water Street and East Wisconsin A... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Four-level building with shorter buildings flanking it on either side. On the road in front two carriages are visible, drawn by horses. A group of men ar... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Awnings stretch over the entrance and windows on the front facade. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Previously known as Chestnut Street; view from the corner of 3rd Street. Image looks down the road to the vanishing point on the horizon, where a steeple ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Looking East down middle of avenue. Numerous vehicles are on the road, with a few pedestrians visible. A sign identifies the Republican Hotel on the left, ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Wisconsin Street looking west to Grand Avenue. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Street, looking west from the Post Office. Includes the Pabst building, the Wells Building and the Pfister Hotel. Caption reads: "Wisconsin St., ... |
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