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| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Milwaukee-Downer College dining hall. Places at the tables are set. |
| Date: | 11 06 1957 |
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| Description: | A man is playing a small double keyboard, from which tubes are extending. Behind him are large windows looking out towards a street scene. Across the stree... |
| Date: | 10 21 1947 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "City Hall, West Allis, Wis." The entrance is two stories and has four columns, and the building is partially covered with vines. A wo... |
| Date: | 12 02 1914 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Washington School, West Allis, Wis." A brick school built in 1925. Several additions were built in 1928, 1931 and 1951. Today it is s... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Federal Malleable Co., West Allis, Wis." A large, multi-building factory with railroad tracks leading to it. According to records, th... |
| Date: | 02 25 1936 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Public Library, West Allis, Wis." Built in 1914 of brick in the Neoclassical style, the construction was supported by a gift of $15,0... |
| Date: | 07 01 1913 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Milwaukee Asylum for Chronic Insane, Wauwatosa, Wis." Three multistory buildings with towers. A pond, trees, lawn, sidewalks and a br... |
| Date: | 01 27 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Lutheran Theological Seminary, Wauwatosa, Wis." The two-story building with a full basement and a large attic was dedicated in 1893. ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "West House, Milwaukee Sanitarium, Wauwatosa, Wis. A three-story brick building at the Milwaukee Sanitarium, a privately held institut... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "First Congregational Church, Wauwatosa, Wis." The entrance to a brick, Georgian Revival church built in 1919. The portico has four Do... |
| Date: | 08 29 1906 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on front: "Wauwatosa School." A cyanotype postcard of a brick, multistory school, the stone plaque reads: "Public School." Arched doorways, lar... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Construction Equipment Division. |
| Date: | 12 06 1962 |
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| Description: | A woman standing among several marionettes, demonstrating the strings and control bars to another woman and two children. Caption reads: "Two youngsters... |
| Date: | 02 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of a stage. Three women are reclining on the set to the upper left. A man is standing in the lower right, gesturing toward them. Caption read... |
| Date: | 03 11 1969 |
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| Description: | A man in costume — including greasepaint and exaggerated eyebrows and lips — posing holding a cane. Caption reads: "Charles Abbott, dressed for his role as... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "German Lutheran Church, South Milwaukee, Wis." A clapboard Lutheran church with a belfry. |
| Date: | 08 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Three men are sitting in a room holding papers. A handmade sign on the door reads: "KEFAUVER FOR VICE PRESIDENT HDQ." Caption reads: "A makeshift sign |
| Date: | 04 25 1979 |
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| Description: | A truck is moving along a tunnel, with a rotating scrub brush attached to its rear scrubbing the ceiling of the tunnel. A man is walking on the opposite si... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Bird's Eye View of Wonderland." This amusement park had many names over 34 years, and was called Wonderland from 1905 to 1909. It was... |
| Date: | 08 19 1956 |
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| Description: | Two young women are standing in a building with their luggage at their feet. There are several women are in the background near a First Aid sign. Caption r... |
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