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| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | View from Outer Lake Shore Drive looking south from Foster Avenue. Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline are in the background. |
| Date: | 09 1947 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of people waiting for the ferry at the Gill's Rock landing in Door County. Caption reads: "Scene at Gill's Rock Landing, Door County... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | W.W. Cargill Company's grain elevator. |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition grounds at Grant Park. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Chart or sign illustrating the "New Plow Works of the International Harvester Co. Canton, Illinois." The middle of the poster features an article titled "H... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Street, looking east from the Post Office towards Lake Michigan. Date written in pencil on postcard reads May 21, 1909. Caption ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Avenue looking east, probably from the Pabst Building. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works, with a river and Lake Michigan in the background. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View from railroad bridge of the harbor at Green Bay. On the other side of the harbor, there are many industrial buildings, including Northern Paper Mills,... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This early road map shows the system of roads in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, northeastern Iowa, southeastern Minnesota, and the western portion of Michig... |
| Date: | 07 1924 |
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| Description: | A man stands with a group of nine women posed in front of a small commercial building. A sign in the shape of a tire advertises "Goodyear Service Station."... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | The photographer's family poses on the dock beside the ship "Sailor Boy" of Sturgeon Bay. Clothilde Hotz holds the hand of Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy); daught... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard of people on the shoreline and on the pier at Death's Door. Signs on a tree near a snack stand on the right read: "Sm... |
| Date: | 01 06 1958 |
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| Description: | View from snowy shoreline of Mooring Basin at bay end of Ship Canal. The boat moored in the foreground is named "Allie." It is tethered to a post on the sh... |
| Date: | 01 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from 8th Street Bridge over the Manitowoc River towards Lake Michigan. There is a lighthouse in the distance. Ice is floating on the water. A... |
| Date: | 01 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over icy water towards ships in the shipyard on the left, and the cement company in the background. Cranes and industrial buildings are in th... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of downtown Milwaukee, with Lake Michigan in the background. The eight story 1920 addition to the Boston Store is in the foreground, ident... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of fishing tugs moored alongside the wharf at Marinette. Two automobiles are parked in the foreground, just in front of the Bridge Fish Co. b... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards fishing boats of various sizes, and sailboats docked at the wharf at Fish Creek. Two persons are carrying gear toward the pier.... |
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