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Greetings

Date: 1931
Description: The "Milwaukee Journal's" holiday card with a scene of two women in front of a town scene done in the Old English style. A man inside of a shop door is tip...
Photograph

People's Bookstore Storefront

Date: 1940
Description: Storefront of the People's Bookstore showing a Lincoln and Jefferson display. An awning is over the adjacent smoke shop on the left, and on the exterior wa...
Photograph

Downtown Circus Parade

Date: 1963
Description: An International CO-192 truck leads a 25-piece circus parade through downtown streets. The parade originated at Circus World Museum in Baraboo. Additional ...
Photograph

United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
Description: Horse-drawn wagon in a United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration through downtown. The horse bears signs that read "1946 One Horse Pay!" and "1846 One Hor...
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NAACP Protest

Date: 09 1958
Description: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) picketers outside the Schroeder Hotel where the Apprenticeship meeting was held. A Blatz...
Photograph

Art Welstenholine

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Description: Art Welstenholine speaking into a microphone on a sidewalk in front of a bakery. A small group surrounds him and he is looking into the camera.
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Streetcars in Milwaukee

Date: 1901
Description: Elevated view of scene at the corner of Grand (Avenue?) and West Water Street, now Plankinton and Wisconsin Avenues. Several streetcars are in the streets ...
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Run on the First National Bank

Date: 04 1905
Description: Elevated view of street scene of a run on the First National Bank. The sidewalk is crowded with people, spilling into the street. A horse-drawn buggy is dr...
Photograph

Sausage Display

Date: 04 15 1967
Description: Richard Bublitz, William Mackowiak and Edward McPhetridge looking through a window at a sausage display in a delicatessen owned by Charles E. (Bud) Gillett...
Photograph

"The Milwaukee Leader" Newspaper

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Description: A large group portrait of people posing in front of "The Milwaukee Leader" newspaper established in December of 1911 by Victor L. Berger. He can be seen te...
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Hammel, Newald & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Hammel, Newald & Company, a wholesale wine and liquor dealer and importer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On the left is a three-quarter view of t...
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Goodyear Rubber Co. Billhead

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Description: Billhead of James Suydam of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, agent for the Goodyear Rubber Company, manufacturers of and wholesale dealers in all types of rubber good...
Photograph

Milwaukee Grape Boycott Picketers

Date: 1969
Description: Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc...
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Milwaukee's First Bottle House, Beer Label

Date: 1934
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Blue, black and silver art deco-style beer label for Milwaukee's First Bottle House b...
Photograph

NAACP March with Police Escort

Date: 1967
Description: Father James Groppi (center) and the NAACP participate in a civil rights march. Police are armed and escorting the protestors. The marchers are passing an ...
Photograph

J.C. Iversen & Co. Store — 425 East Water Street #826

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Description: Elevated stereograph of J.C. Iversen and Company on the west side of Water Street (north of Grand Avenue). Other stores include: Adam Koch Restaurant and Q...
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Not Street Legal

Date: 08 31 1957
Description: Milwaukee police Sergeant Edward Daily explains to Leland Bryan that his Roadable Aircraft, a combination airplane and automobile, may not be driven on Mil...
Postcard

Watch the Modern Drugstore Grow

Date: 1908
Description: View the from the street of a building being remodeled to accommodate two businesses: a drugstore on the ground floor and a postal sub-station on the secon...
Postcard

G. Miller Musical Instruments Window Display

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Description: The G. Miller storefront window displays musical instruments as well as clocks and watches. The store is in the Walker's Point neighborhood near South Sixt...
Postcard

Businesses on S. Sixth Street, Walker's Point

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Description: Street view in the S. Sixth Street neighborhood of Walker's Point. The storefronts include the H.J. Heinz Co.; H. Mullen, a clothing and shoe store; J. Ger...

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