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Newspaper Carriers Visit Milwaukee and See Braves-Cardinals Game

Date: 07 02 1954
Description: Wisconsin State Journal newspaper carriers attend a Milwaukee Braves versus St. Louis Cardinals baseball game. Carrier Bill Jess (left) gets the autograph ...
Postcard

Walker's Point Neighborhood Funeral

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Description: View down a snowy street. Men and women, one with a baby, are bundled up against the snowy winter weather, and are lining both sides of the street. Carriag...
Postcard

Young Baseball Player

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Description: A young baseball player poses outside the porch of his S. Sixth St. Walker's Point neighborhood home. He is wearing a baseball uniform with cap, and is hol...
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Fern L. Reinhardt

Date: 1934
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Fern L. Reinhardt, smiling on the occasion of her graduation from Nurse's Training. She is wearing her uniform and cap wi...
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Wolgast-Ritchie Boxing Match

Date: 03 12 1914
Description: The Ad Wolgast-Willie Ritchie boxing match in the Milwaukee Auditorium. There were 8,000 people in attendance. Most of the audience members have turned to ...
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Dickey Chapelle at Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle taking photographs on the beach in Milwaukee during Operation Inland Seas. A Navy ship is on Lake Michigan in the background on the left. A...
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Vel Phillips Playing Baseball

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, handing a baseball to an unidentified young man wearing a jacket. Two unidenti...
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Vel Phillips Throwing a Baseball

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, throwing a baseball. Two unidentified children stand in the field behind Vel. ...
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Vel Phillips Pitching Baseball

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Description: View from behind batter and umpire of Vel Phillips pitching a baseball. She is wearing a Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt. There are three unidenti...
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Vel Phillips Pitching a Baseball

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a baseball glove, hat and a sweatshirt that reads "Milwaukee Commando NAACP Youth Council" pitching a baseball. In the background sta...
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Milwaukee March

Date: 1967
Description: Elevated view of a group of people marching in the street with Father James Groppi. There is a man driving a Milwaukee police vehicle in front, and one man...
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Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland

Date: 08 08 1948
Description: Margaret McGuire receives a lei made of orchids in a ceremony making her the Queen of the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition at the State Fair. The lei was fl...
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Marques Johnson Takes the Ball to the Rim

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Description: Marques Johnson of the Milwaukee Bucks drives the ball to the rim over David Thompson (33) and John Kuester (10) of the Denver Nuggets.
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Marques Johnson Scores

Date: 11 21 1979
Description: Marques Johnson of the Milwaukee Bucks sails past Dan Roundfield of the Atlanta Hawks and scores the bucket for two points. Quinn Buckner is watching the s...
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Marques Johnson Handles the Ball

Date: 11 21 1979
Description: Marques Johnson of the Milwaukee handles the basketball while Dan Roundfield of the Atlanta Hawks guards him. In the background players are watching from t...
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Marques Johnson Looks to Score

Date: 10 06 1979
Description: Marques Johnson of the Milwaukee Bucks splits two Denver Nuggets defenders and leaps for the layup as Bo Ellis (31) fouls him.
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Don Nelson

Date: 11 27 1979
Description: Don Nelson, head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, squatting down to coach his team during a timeout.
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Lawson Air Liner With Crew

Date: 1919
Description: A Lawson Air Liner is parked outdoors, with three men posing next to the cockpit.
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The Milwaukee Theater

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: View from across street of five policemen walking in front of the Milwaukee Theater. A row of decorative bushes behind them partially blocks the line of pe...
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News Vans Outside the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: View down street towards three news vans sitting outside the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, a building adjacent to the Milwaukee Theater which is hosting the ...

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