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| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Vintage automobiles on a Milwaukee Third Ward street used to represent a bank robbery in Mason City for the made-for-TV movie, "Dillinger". |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Costumed actors on a Third Ward street transformed to represent the 1930s for the made-for-TV movie "Dillinger". |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man standing at the back of an International Metro truck with a basket of bread. The truck includes the text: "Jaeger's / Butter-Nut is fresh bread". "Ha... |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi, seen wearing sunglasses in the middle of a crowd, leads a demonstration against discrimination. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A sidewalk view down 318 North Jefferson Street with Sebatian Gagliano's Florist Shop in the foreground. Several people stroll on the sidewalk. |
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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: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Man operating a Pawling & Harnischfeger concrete breaker on the street. The machine is stamped "Pawling & Harnischfeger Co. Milwaukee, Wis." Pedestrians ar... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Street cleaner cleaning a street. A man and boy stand on the opposite sidewalk watching. Another street cleaner is on the left. Perhaps in Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk of cars parked along Brady Street. Storefronts and a church are visible. |
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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: | A group of boys "following their leader in search of adventure" in the street. The boys are barefoot and are wearing hats. In the background are a storefro... |
| 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: | Looking east on Wisconsin Avenue at Water Steet with cars and pedestrians. Streetcars are running up and down the middle of the wide street. Skyscrapers an... |
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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. |
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| Description: | Two children making mud pies in the dirt in the space between the street and sidewalk. They are dressed in warm clothes and hats. In the background a man i... |
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| Description: | A young girl on a city sidewalk with a St. Bernard that's wearing a sandwich board reading "Carl Zeidler For Mayor." |
| Date: | 06 10 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated group portrait of the veterans of the First Wisconsin Calvary. They are standing in rows in the street. Horses with wagons are behind them, and a ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk of men dressed in hats and jackets exiting an automobile at the curb. There is snow along the curb, and across the street are billboards... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. This building, which was destroyed by fire in 1866, was located in the commercial district known as Market Square. The Square was actually a t... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph; view of store and adjoining buildings, Wisconsin and Milwaukee Streets. A large statue of a bird sits atop the store in the right of the image... |
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