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| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad locomotive #1100, a class I engine, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1873 and originally numbered #199. Th... |
| Date: | 06 10 1906 |
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| Description: | View of car #466, which was then one of Milwaukee's newest streetcars. The car was put in service by TMERL about 1905 and was rebuilt as a duplex car in 1... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Journal Building located at 734 North 4th Street. To the right of the building in an alley are circulation trucks. Newsboys and customers are... |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | Part of a United Public Workers parade/demonstration on a downtown city street. A horse-drawn wagon carries some participants. Parade signs read "No Swivel... |
| Date: | 04 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of street scene of a run on the First National Bank. The sidewalk is crowded with people, spilling into the street. A horse-drawn buggy is dr... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A picketer pushing the wheelchair of another supporter of the United Farmworkers — AFL-CIO grape boycott. They are possibly picketing in front of a superma... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A sign on the roof of a car that says, "Grapes = Poverty" supporting the United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO grape boycott. The car is parked on a street in f... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| 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 ... |
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| Description: | John Hahn stands in the street near his horse-drawn cart. The side of the cart says 'John Hahn Piano & Furniture Moving'. The cart, John Hahn, and the cart... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | Michael Petyo is shaking hands with a reporter from 12 News, as a camera operator is filming them. Petyo is wearing a suit and a red flower pin. Another ma... |
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