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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of one of the first Pawling & Harnischfeger machine shops. The building was built in 1886 on the corner of South First Street and East Oregon... |
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| Description: | The exterior of the first Pawling & Harnischfeger storefront from across a street. The text in the windows reads "Panyard Machinery & Pattern Works," "Mfrs... |
| Date: | 09 1911 |
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| Description: | A trade show display for Pawling & Harnischfeger cranes and hoists at the Merchants & Manufacturers Association Expo featuring a single-line grab bucket. |
| Date: | 08 15 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from window of the Pawling & Harnischfeger factory on the corner of National Avenue and 44th Street. The road in front has power lines along ... |
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| Description: | Various Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company crane parts and other products are on display at the factory's sales floor. Signs read "Milwaukee ... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway locomotive no. 40, called the L.B. Rock, at the Chestnut Street yards. The mast of a ship is visible in the background, and ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A milkman stands inside a Golden Guernsey Dairy delivery truck loading bottles into a carrier. The truck is parked at a curb and a house is in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The F. Dohmen Company Wholesale Druggists. A salesman's catalog with removable screwed bindings and pages of note paper bound between catalog pages. (One o... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | The exterior of carnival banners with people gathered in front of them. Probably depicting "Gay Paree" at the State Fair. |
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| Description: | Children gathered in front steps and on a platform with large painted banners at a street carnival, possibly the State Fair. There is also a stand with an ... |
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| Description: | A night photograph of 'obscene' slot-machines in a penny arcade. On display are pennants on the wall, including "Iowa" and "Nebraska." Another machine hold... |
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| Description: | A group of several performers, possibly singers, standing outside on a platform in front of a crowd. |
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| Description: | Exterior of one of Milwaukee's largest dance halls, with a sign on the front reading: "Dreamland." There are other buildings along the street and people wa... |
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| Description: | Miller Hall, a saloon recreation center in Milwaukee. In windows below the main entrance to the right are three signs advertising Palm Gardens. Another sig... |
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| Description: | A group of adults and children are gathered in front of carnival banners. Probably depicting "Gay Paree" at the State Fair. |
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| Description: | A group of boys are standing near the entrance of a brick building waiting to get in. A man behind them is entering the door. The sign near the door reads ... |
| Date: | 10 1914 |
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| Description: | Buffalo Street construction showing cuts in the pavement and the inconvenience for traffic. Standing between the excavated holes and piles of dirt is a hor... |
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| Description: | A group of boys take a boxing stance near two men standing on a street corner, in front of a building that has "Milwaukee Beer" painted on it. |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Four members of Milwaukee Local 248 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America on strike against the Monarch company. The UPWA had a long history of org... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The bartender Art Gerth stands behind the bar of a tavern located at the corner of Twelfth and Chambers. A glass of beer stands on the bar. Behind the bar... |
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