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Krueger's Empire Hotel

Date: 01 1999
Description: Krueger's Empire Hotel, the building that stood on the South West corner of Milwaukee and Rock River streets, has been razed.
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Summer Construction

Date: 08 17 1958
Description: Building for a new “supermarket” food and household necessities store, under construction on the outskirts of the Milwaukee area. In the background is a ba...
Photograph

Arthur J. Altmeyer

Date: 1963
Description: Arthur J. Altmeyer standing in front of the Social Security Administration Headquarters. In 1973 the building was renamed the Altmeyer Building in his hono...
Photograph

GOP Campaign at the Little White Schoolhouse

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: Ivan Kindschi, Dane County dairy farmer and candidate for state treasurer, speaks from the steps of the Little White Schoolhouse as the GOP candidates begi...
Postcard

State House Crew

Date: 1912
Description: Group portrait of forest rangers outside a house. They are wearing work clothes, boots and a variety of hats. A man on the right is holding a gun and point...
Print

Johnston Harvester Company Advertising Card

Date: 1876
Description: Advertising card with a color illustration of a man using the Johnston Light Combine in a field with two horses. The back of the card describes the agricul...
Photograph

Outdoor Group Portrait of European American Men

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of three unidentified men posing standing and wearing hats in front of a wooden building. The shadow of the photographer is in the f...
Photograph

Camp Petenwell CCC Men

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Description: Five men from the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Petenwell stand together and smile for the camera. They are posed in front of a truck which is parked ne...
Photograph

Blacksmith Shop

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Description: View looking up snow-covered hill towards a man posing standing next to a tree on a snow-covered ground in front of a wooden structure with a sign that rea...
Photograph

Civilian Conservation Corps Truck

Date: 1941
Description: A man in a uniform stands beside a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) truck. The photograph is annotated as: "The Gravy Boat." There is a building in the ba...
Photograph

Ice Cutters

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Description: A large group of ice cutters posing for a portrait. They are holding a variety of implements and are sitting and standing on blocks of ice. Fence and build...
Photograph

Horses, Cart and Driver

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man posing sitting in a cart pulled by a team of two horses. Location identified as near the railroad depot looking northeast, with t...
Photograph

Winter Scene

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Description: Exterior portrait of men chopping wood on a snow covered-ground with several town structures in the background. The small building in the center was the po...
Book or Pamphlet

P&O Charrues Canton

Date: 1919
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man on a plow using a team of horses to work in a field. A large building is in the background.
Photograph

Texting

Date: 2012
Description: Trixie, a young woman texting while standing on the sidewalk on 7th Street. She is wearing eyeglasses, a houndstooth patterned coat with jeans, and sheepsk...
Photograph

Workmen and the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman

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Description: View down street towards men at work on a boarded-up building on a street corner. A city bus enters the street on the left. In the background is the Cathed...
Photograph

Reconstruction of Town Creek

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with a railway track with a train and other machinery. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek a...
Photograph

Sand Hauler Wreckage

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with wreckage, and men working on the right. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1...
Photograph

Sand Hauler Wreckage

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with wreckage, and men working on the wreckage. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after th...
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Reconstruction after the 1911 Flood

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with people walking on a dirt road, and others working at the site. Location identified as the reconstruction following t...

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