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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Water Tower from road, with a faux birchbark background. Caption reads: "Lake Front Water Tower, Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Water Tower and park with Milwaukee Bay in background. Caption reads: "Water Tower and Park with view of Milwaukee Bay, Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View from the top of a warehouse at the south end of 6th Street. There is a traffic jam on both sides of the viaduct. On the left, one man is walking on th... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | St. Mary's Hospital and surrounding area. In the bottom left corner is the water tower. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View down road of overhead lighting equipment of the T.M.E.R. and L. Company, which, at the time had a proposal to be replaced by more modern lighting. Th... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Aerial view includes farm and orchards, surrounded by neighborhoods. A water tower is on the upper left half. |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Merchants & Manufacturers Special Train. A steam engine with several cars stretching to the horizon is sitting on the tracks in front of a pl... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards oncrete locks on a narrow river in winter. Snow is on the ground, and a water tower and smokestack are on the other side of the... |
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| Description: | Corner of Grove and Mineral Streets with cars parked along the road. Storefronts line the streets. The Goodwill store, a used car dealership and a water to... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large pile of coal sitting under a tarp, with an empty truck waiting nearby. Industrial buildings and water towers are across the river.... |
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| Description: | Water Tower Park with bare trees in the background. Snow covers the ground. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man standing at the front of a freighter, just above the name painted on the side, "James Laughlin". Industrial buildings and water towe... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | From Jones Island, looking across to a manufacturing area with cranes and large piles of coal or coke? In the lower foreground is a bare hill, with old pil... |
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| Description: | Piles of sand are on the ground, and more sand is pouring off a large dredge. The dredge is mounted on a ship. A building in the background has a water tow... |
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| Description: | Elevated view, probably taken from the old Wisconsin State Capitol building, looking down East Washington Avenue toward the water tower. |
| Date: | 03 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison streets, new pavement, viewed on Myrtle Street, looking west toward Oscar Mayer plant. |
| Date: | 04 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Veterans Hospital at Tomah. |
| Date: | 06 03 1935 |
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| Description: | Men from the Illinois Soil Conservation Project stand for a photograph at International Harvester's experimental farm at Hinsdale. Original caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A train carries McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) bouind for North Dakota farms. A sign on the train reads: "McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thr... |
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