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| Date: | 03 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Men looking over charts at a Boy Scout circus ticket sales meeting. |
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| Description: | The airfield of the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company which became the site of Milwaukee County Airport in 1926. It was established by Thomas Hamilton, a... |
| Date: | 09 12 1971 |
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| Description: | Children fashioned their seesaw using a board, and a barricade with a sign that reads: "Road Closed" that they found in an empty lot. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom... |
| Date: | 08 29 1926 |
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| Description: | Drainage Districts of Central Wisconsin booth at Wisconsin State Fair with crops on display, and photographs around the booth above vegetables on display o... |
| Date: | 08 29 1926 |
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| Description: | L.L. Olds Seed Company display booth of flowers and seeds at Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 08 29 1926 |
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| Description: | Rock County farm crops exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 11 08 1967 |
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| Description: | Teachers protest the lack of a "concrete offer" for a new contract in front of the Milwaukee vocational school. |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | Postal workers demonstrate to demand salary increases to meet war-time cost of living increases. |
| Date: | 10 04 1983 |
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| Description: | A man looks over parking meters that are some of the items for sale at the first Milwaukee County Recycling Center sale. |
| Date: | 08 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Knights of Columbus member celebrates at an annual "gay nineties" party. He stands next to a sign that advertises beer at five cents a glass. |
| Date: | 02 1907 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Harvester Works, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 10 30 1944 |
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| Description: | View across railroads tracks towards the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad station. A number of children and adults are standing around the station. S... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A bridge crosses the Milwaukee River on Oneida Street, now known as Wells Street, looking toward the City Hall tower. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A man tips his hat to a passing woman as horse-drawn carts and pedestrians navigate through the dirt and mud of Milwaukee streets, thereby illustrating tha... |
| Date: | 06 1947 |
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| Description: | A family boarding a route #40 streetcar. A sign on the front of the car advertises midget auto racing at the State Fair grounds; the second urges people to... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #212, also known as the Waukesha Scoot, at Milwaukee's Union Depot. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad locomotive #1100, a class I engine, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1873 and originally numbered #199. Th... |
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