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Photographer J. Robert Tayor

Date: 1928
Description: Standing atop a special vehicle fitted with a body built to resemble a camera, Taylor found the ideal vantage point from which to cover a news event. The c...
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Milwaukee Trolley

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Description: Streetcar #254 of the Milwaukee Street Railway Company on the North Avenue line, together with three company employees. Two men sit on the front steps of a...
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Milwaukee-Western Fuel Company Offices

Date: 1935
Description: Nighttime view. A small sign for the company is in a middle window on the first floor. The left entrance has a potted plant in the window.
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Drafting Room, Ocatilla

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Description: Drafting room used by the Taliesin Fellowship at Ocatilla. A number of Fellowship apprentices are working at drafting tables.
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Library Catalog

Date: 1970
Description: View of Wisconsin Historical Society librarians filing catalog cards. This image is undated, but it was probably taken during the 1970s.
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Workers' Unity House Entrance and Drive

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Description: View toward the covered entrance and covered pathway. Above the roof is sign that reads, in reverse: "Welcome." To the right is a large structure, probably...
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Ditch Plain Life Saving Station Building

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Description: A view of the station and an outbuilding. A man stands in front of the building. Caption reads: "Ditch Plain Life Saving Station, Montauk, L.I., N.Y."
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Post Office

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Description: Exterior of a shingled post office/gas station with cars parked in front near the gas pumps. Sign in front reads "Socony" and a man wearing a white apron a...
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Lehigh Valley Railroad Station

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Description: View across railroad tracks of group of children awaiting the arrival of a train outside Lehigh Valley Railroad Station.
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Schlitz Park Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Schlitz Park Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with halftone views of the park gateway and a two-story open-air pavilion with an overlook,...
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The Schlitz

Date: 1905
Description: The Schlitz Saloon on the corner of Doty and King Streets. The saloon was owned by Fred C. Harbort from 1900-1907. There is a man in an apron standing at t...
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State Bank, Lucien S. Hanks, President

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Description: The State Bank, on Pinckney St and E. Washington, was built in 1882 to replace the original bank built in 1852. Lucien S. Hanks was the president of the St...

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