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Axtell House - Anaglyph

Date: 1869
Description: Stereograph of the Axtell House building, with a storefront next to it advertising "Clothing Hats Caps Sailors Outfits". A bridge is on the left and a man...
Print

Milwaukee Malting Company Logo

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Description: Logo of the Milwaukee Malting Company from a memohead printed by the Wisconsin Bank Note Company, Milwaukee, with a golden sun emerging from grey clouds, a...
Print

International Litho Artists and Engravers Insurance and Protective Assn. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead proof for the International Litho Artists and Engravers Insurance and Protective Association of the United States and Canada, of Milwaukee, Wisc...
Photograph

Wisconsin Ice and Coal Company Truck

Date: 09 21 1937
Description: A man stands in a lift attached to the bed of an International Model DR-60 truck owned by the Wisconsin Ice and Coal Company. Another man stands atop a rai...
Photograph

Blue Angel Drill Team

Date: 1970
Description: View of the Blue Angel Drill Team, a flying aerobatic team formed in 1946. Four airplanes fly through the air.
Drawing

Polar Frozen Custard Label

Date: 07 02 1935
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features a polar bear licking a large ice cream cone. There are floating blocks of ic...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 08 1993
Description: "Bungee Jumper."
Photograph

Brothers Playing in the Snow

Date: 01 11 1963
Description: Winter scene with two young boys playing in the snow in front of their home. Milwaukee Journal January 12, 1963 original caption: "The same snow tha...
Photograph

Rainy Milwaukee Evening

Date: 1957
Description: Downtown street on a rainy night.
Photograph

Snow in the Night

Date: 1953
Description: Winter scene of a Milwaukee residential street corner with snow at night.
Photograph

Winter Traffic

Date: 1956
Description: Elevated view looking on downtown street with traffic, in winter.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1885
Description: The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ...
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

Walker's Point Neighborhood Funeral

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Description: An elaborate funeral hearse is pulled up to a house with the back doors open, waiting to be loaded with the casket. There are many men and women bundled up...
Photograph

Clearing a Path with a Snowblower

Date: 01 12 1963
Description: Winter scene with teenage boy snow blowing the driveway of a house. His letter jacket has "64" on the sleeve. He is also wearing a stocking cap with pom-po...
Photograph

Teenage Toboggan Riders

Date: 12 23 1970
Description: Winter scene with teenage toboggan riders, Rick Borckel (age 14) and Pat Voight (age 13), hitting a bump on a hill in Brown Deer Park, Milwaukee.
Photograph

Children Playing in Snow

Date: 11 30 1976
Description: Elevated view of children sliding on the snow near the Bay Street overpass to Jones Island. The children are walking up the hill. In the background is a st...
Photograph

Child Building Snowman

Date: 1913
Description: A child building a snowman in front of the Herman Taylor home.
Photograph

Homeless Man

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Description: A homeless man in Milwaukee sitting in the snow as he attempts to craft a makeshift shelter from a piece of tarp.
Photograph

The Milwaukee Theater

Date: 11 06 2015
Description: View across street towards the Milwaukee Theater, framed by the evening sky.

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