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| Date: | 02 21 1882 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph poster advertising a Milwaukee Mardi Gras celebration, arranged by the Turnverein and Milwaukee Musical Societies, and held at the Exposit... |
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| Description: | Schooners docked on river. The view is downriver from the Grand Avenue Bridge. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Two boys on the class-C scow sailboat "Bobalong III," with one boy balancing off the side while standing with one leg on the bilge keel. |
| Date: | 10 07 1977 |
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| Description: | Man and woman napping on the rocks with their hats down over their eyes as they fish for salmon. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on the ground spraying water from a fire hose. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Popular bathing beaches like this one on Lake Michigan offered relief from the heat as well as the opportunity to be seen in the latest fashions of the 191... |
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| Description: | Unloading barrels of goods from the "Ogdensburg" in the Milwaukee harbor. |
| Date: | 05 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Zookeepers releasing rhesus monkeys to the island that serves as their summer home at the Washington park zoo (later replaced by the Milwaukee County Zoo). |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater. |
| Date: | 06 18 1989 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of four children relaxing in a wading pool. |
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| Description: | Elevated view over bridge and river looking up Grand Avenue. Pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles and a street car are in the foreground. |
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| Description: | A man unloads coal from a boat by walking a wheelbarrow across wooden platforms raised on scaffolds. In the background a man stands with an empty wheelbarr... |
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| Description: | Several people are standing aboard a sailboat sailing in the harbor. A small boat is tied to the back of the sailboat. |
| Date: | 06 21 1957 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of crowded Bradford beach. |
| Date: | 08 01 1970 |
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| Description: | To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built. |
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