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Holiday Canned Food Drive

Date: 11 22 1955
Description: Thomas Constable (left) and Walter Medenski (right), pose in front of canned food gathered by pupils at the Center Street school for the Salvation Army's T...
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Family Cast

Date: 02 12 1963
Description: Six members of the same family form the complete cast of a library playhouse production that was to be televised.
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Bicycle Repair

Date: 05 23 1957
Description: Three young men repair a bicycle.
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Boys Day at the Pool

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Description: Boys Day at an indoor pool. A view from the balcony on the second floor overlooks the boys swimming in the pool below.
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Interior of a Clubhouse

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Description: Interior of a clubhouse with a table, chairs, wall decoration, and a phonograph. Possibly the Can-Crushing Club.
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Willms Cigar Factory, Milwaukee

Date: 1896
Description: Workers at the Willms cigar factory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, posing with cigars and cigar boxes. Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) sits on the far left with six c...
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Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland at Wisconsin Centennial State Fair

Date: 08 1948
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, speaks into a WHA microphone in the Dairy Building at the Wisconsin Centennial State Fair. She is surrounded by a cro...
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Walter Bankhead

Date: 03 22 1967
Description: A boy is working on an art project. Caption reads: "Art projects are popular this month at St. Benedict's school, 1004 W. State St. The children have had n...
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Patricia Williams

Date: 05 16 1958
Description: A young woman is smiling and holding up a certificate. Caption reads: "The top salesmen in the Junior Achievement sales contest showed her certificate prou...
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Debutante Training

Date: 08 25 1967
Description: A woman is holding hands with two young women, with several young men and women looking on from behind them. Caption reads: "Walk slowly," were the instruc...
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Mu Delta Sigma

Date: 1967
Description: A copy photograph of an image made in May, 1924, of the Iota chapter of Mu Delta Sigma at the Milwaukee University School comprising 21 young men. Those id...
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Duet

Date: 1901
Description: Ralph Wettstein, left, and Herbert Paul Brumder (1885-1967) singing while sitting in a room with a curved wall. They are holding a large open book. Each ma...
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Edward P. Allis

Date: 1848
Description: Waist-up portrait of Edward Phelps Allis, an industrialist who formed the Edward P. Allis Company in Milwaukee, initially manufacturing milling equipment b...

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