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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across canal of the McCormick Reaper Works, rail yard, and surrounding buildings. After 1902, the factory became International Harvester's Mc... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the bridge, with several cars driving on it. On the left and right are streets below the bridge. In the distance are smokestacks and water... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Panorama of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory building. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company before 1902. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Winter view of a city street with parked automobiles and people walking down the sidewalk. A lamppost is in the foreground, and a smokestack and water towe... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Rock River, with a large smokestack and water tower on the left. Richard Lloyd Jones was born in Janesville in 1873 and lived there u... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Cobb Canning Company. The factory features a water tower and chimney. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Sanitary Refrigerator Company of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, manufacturers of wood and steel refrigerators, with an elevated three-quarter vi... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View looking east towards a water tower on East Washington Avenue. There are commercial buildings along the sidewalks on the left and right, and automobile... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over rooftops of the McCormick Works. Beyond the rooftops is a lumber yard. A river is in the background. |
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| Description: | View looking down East Washington Avenue towards the water tower. On the left is a sign on the side of a building for the Schoelkopf Ford dealership. There... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol of the old water tower, and an expansive view of the city with church steeples, houses, commercial buildings... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of downtown Milwaukee, with Lake Michigan in the background. The eight story 1920 addition to the Boston Store is in the foreground, ident... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Aspen logs are stacked in rows in front of the buildings of the American Excelsior Company. There are large frame buildings on the left, and a water tower ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a two-story building, with a sidewalk, low fence and a telephone or power pole in front. There is a widow's walk and a chimney o... |
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