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Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
Date: | 10 14 1912 |
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Description: | President Theodore Roosevelt leaving the Chicago and North Western depot after arriving in Milwaukee on his October 14th, 1912 visit, during which he was s... |
Date: | 08 23 1946 |
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Description: | Crew of the railroad car ferry "City of Milwaukee" demonstrating for a 40-hour week and overtime pay. The "City of Milwaukee" ferried Grand Trunk Western ... |
Date: | 03 1946 |
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Description: | CIO members joined Lincoln Brigade veterans in a demonstration on Wisconsin Avenue last week to demand the breaking off of U.S. diplomatic relations with F... |
Date: | 09 03 1945 |
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Description: | The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa... |
Date: | 03 1945 |
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Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | International G-1(?) truck carrying International Harvester Company women workers during World War I. The truck is decorated with flags and shields bearing... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Men working on a wagon truck inside International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. A completed Weber wagon and a large American flag are in the background. T... |
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Description: | Ho-Chunk ceremonial performers posing on the sandy riverbank in front of a steamboat and rock formation. |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | Sailors passing cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) from an International truck to a ship docked at Chicago. City skyline in background. |
Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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Description: | Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store. |
Date: | 09 20 1928 |
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Description: | Stream of factory workers leaving International Harvester's McCormick Works. A sign along the front of the factory reads: "'Quality is the Foundation of ou... |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | A woman and her dog meet the mail carrier in his delivery boat at the end of a pier on the west shore of Fox Lake. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Former President Theodore Roosevelt with pilot Art Smith and his Curtiss Pusher at the Panama Pacific International Exposition. |
Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
Date: | 01 1967 |
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Description: | Greeting astronaut James A. Lovell (4th from the left) and his wife at the airport are Wisconsin Governor Warren P. Knowles (2nd from the left) and Mrs. Do... |
Date: | 09 1972 |
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Description: | Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt practice operating the lunar roving vehicle (LRV) in preparation for the Apollo 17 mission to the moon. They ... |
Date: | 08 09 1934 |
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Description: | Wisconsin State Employment Services, 111 King Street, women's interview room, desk, chairs. There is a view of the street below through windows on the righ... |
Date: | 12 09 1933 |
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Description: | Men crowd around the newly opened Dane County C.W.A. Pay Station at the corner of West Dayton and North Carroll Streets to pick up paychecks. |
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