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| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Ben Barkin, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Copeland Service Station, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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| Using tax credits, a neglected 1938 Milwaukee gas station was reinvented as a coffee shop, preserving its Streamline Moderne style. |
| Wisconsin History Maker Award |
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| Learn about the co-founder of Manpower, Inc, the world's largest temporary job service company who actively promoted peace in the Middle East. |
| Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
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| Chapter 9 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
| Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
| 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: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Parishioners gather at the entrance outside New Fellowship Church of God In Christ at North Eighth Street. |
| Date: | 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Winter scene showing snow removal vehicles working to clear the snow on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee after a winter blizzard. |
| Date: | 08 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Reverend Richard Kiefer of Sacred Heart monastery in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, joins in the bingo competition at a Catholic picnic, as women and children a... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Diesel engine assembly line at Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company until 1902. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Man unloading boxes of "Baby Ruth" and "Butterfinger" candy bars from an International D-2 truck outside the Monona Club. The truck was owned by the Suprem... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two men loading cases of Miller beer onto an International C-50 "stake body" truck. The truck was owned by Miller Brewing Company. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Students boarding an International D-300 school bus. The bus is equipped with a one hundred and sixty-five inch Hicks body. |
| Date: | 05 16 1939 |
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| Description: | Service station attendant pumping gas from an International DR-60 Mobiloil fuel truck at a Wadham's Oil and Grease Company station. Centered in Milwaukee, ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view down Wisconsin Avenue looking west, with the RKO Riverside Theatre on the right, and a large Christmas sign on the corner of a building on th... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View down Wisconsin Avenue looking east. |
| Date: | 06 03 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of female graduation procession. |
| Date: | 06 25 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works perform "tear-down" inspections and tests of diesel engines. |
| Date: | 11 04 1935 |
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| Description: | Worker machining a TracTracTor (crawler tractor) track roller shell with a turret lathe at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 11 04 1935 |
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| Description: | Worker pours molten metal into a mold for a TracTracTor (crawler tractor) main frame at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works foundry. |
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