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| Date: | 04 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
| Date: | 12 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Herman Kruse (left) and Ed Papke (right) on the occasion of Papke's retirement. Papke was a founding member of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of Americ... |
| Date: | 04 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Presenting an outboard motor door prize at the annual dance of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of America. "Howie Roth presented the prizes with the ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Zoo director George Speidel and members of the Milwaukee County Zoological society talking over plans for the new zoo while looking at a tentative model fo... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Two men sitting in the stands review the Milwaukee Braves official program during a game. |
| Date: | 11 09 1955 |
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| Description: | A banker pours 12,320 pennies into a change maker. The man had saved the coins for over four years. |
| Date: | 09 19 1958 |
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| Description: | County worker collects alimony payment from an ex-husband. |
| Date: | 09 20 1956 |
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| Description: | Katharine Mather of the Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station checks a computer analysis of the composition of cement. |
| Date: | 03 29 1958 |
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| Description: | A young boy rings a locomotive bell. Other artifacts of locomotive history are on the table before him with members of the Milwaukee chapter of the Nationa... |
| Date: | 05 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Members of a musician's union playing cards together. |
| Date: | 09 02 1954 |
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| Description: | A group of newly naturalized citizens registering to vote at City Hall. |
| Date: | 07 22 1954 |
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| Description: | A table full of silver dollars where bank workers are preparing them to be sent to American Can Co., a Milwaukee-based company which plans on paying its em... |
| Date: | 09 25 1956 |
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| Description: | A man and two women with piles of paper tickets being sorted for the upcoming theater season at the Fred Miller theater. |
| Date: | 05 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Boy Scouts and Explorer Scouts receive the Eagle Scout rank or the Explorer Silver Award, scouting's highest awards at a scouting court of honor ceremony. |
| Date: | 02 09 1958 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Erwin G. Tieman baptizes infants as part of a Lutheran crusade for Christ evangelism. |
| Date: | 03 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Men looking over charts at a Boy Scout circus ticket sales meeting. |
| Date: | 09 20 1953 |
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| Description: | A posed photograph taken for the Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp. to mark the substitution of buses for streetcars on the West Burnham Street line. |
| Date: | 08 27 1957 |
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| Description: | William Proxmire, his wife, Ellen (to Proxmire's right), and his supporters celebrate his victory in the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated u... |
| Date: | 08 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Jubilant Proxmire supporters dance in the streets in Milwaukee after Democrat William Proxmire won the special election to fill the seat left vacant by the... |
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