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Factory Girls

Date: 1922
Description: Factory girls' “club” gathered for coffee in plant refreshment room in the Milwaukee Paper Box Co.
Print

Eugene's Menu

Date: 
Description: Front cover and back insert page from Eugene's restaurant in the Juneau Hotel, with an orange lobster holding a blue card in its tail with images of a stee...
Photograph

Summer Construction

Date: 08 17 1958
Description: Building for a new “supermarket” food and household necessities store, under construction on the outskirts of the Milwaukee area. In the background is a ba...
Photograph

Farmall M Tractor

Date: 03 27 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from right front of a Farmall M tractor with adjustable wide front axle attachment.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1885
Description: The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ...
Print

Wisconsin State Fair Letterhead

Date: 1952
Description: Letterhead for the Wisconsin State Fair, with a state fair ribbon superimposed on a silhouette of the state, and two vignettes of agricultural and industri...
Print

Roundy, Peckham & Dexter Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Roundy, Peckham & Dexter Company, wholesale grocers, with a three-quarter view of the company building on the left, and on the right a si...
Photograph

Gene Autry, His Horse Champion, and a Boy

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Description: Indoor portrait of cowboy star Gene Autry, helping a boy to sit up in the saddle of his trick-riding horse, Champion. Both Gene Autry and the boy are dress...
Print

Complimentary Dinner to Judge Chas. E. Dyer Menu

Date: 1888
Description: Card menu for a dinner for Judge Charles E. Dyer, given by his "legal friends in Milwaukee, at the Milwaukee Club." At the top is a stalk of wheat interlac...
Drawing

"Alice in Dairyland" Costume Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Sketch of an "Alice in Dairyland" costume for the 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice to be displayed at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. A contest w...
Photograph

International Motor Trucks at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated view looking down at the International Motor truck display at the Wisconsin State Fair. Every truck in the display was sold to a customer and lett...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Passengers and Crew of the Lawson Airplane Pose Just Before the Start

Date: 1919
Description: Two images: at the top is a Lawson Air Liner parked outdoors near a hangar; and at the bottom are passengers and crew members standing in front of the airp...
Photograph

Lawson Airplane Co. Factory

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior view from field with tall plants towards one of the entrances to a factory building with the Lawson Airplane Company sign over it.
Photograph

Peeling Carrots

Date: 05 26 1958
Description: A boy in a Boy Scouts uniform for Milwaukee County Council 406 is sitting on a camp stool and peeling carrots. Caption reads: "Peeling carrots was unexciti...
Photograph

Eddie Patterson

Date: 06 26 1988
Description: A man is smiling while holding up a handful of greens from a garden. In the background, several people are standing in a lined. Caption reads: "Milwaukee r...
Photograph

IH Exhibition Hall with Giant Cream Separator

Date: 01 30 1928
Description: A group of men are standing on the left looking up at a giant cream separator on display in an exhibition hall.
Photograph

IH Exhibition Hall with Giant Cream Separator

Date: 01 30 1928
Description: A group of men and women are looking at a giant cream separator on display in an exhibition hall.
Photograph

IH Exhibition Hall with Giant Cream Separator

Date: 01 30 1928
Description: A group of men and women are looking at a giant cream separator on display in an exhibition hall. A newsboy is holding a stack of "Milwaukee Journal's."
Photograph

Masked Campers

Date: 06 23 1979
Description: A man and several children, all wearing handmade masks, playing in a field. Caption reads: "Jay Wigdale, who runs a private day camp, brought his charges t...
Photograph

Mt. Vernon Playground

Date: 1938
Description: A view, looking south, at the intersection of West Mt. Vernon Avenue and North 65th Street. In the foreground is a shallow pool where children are playing,...

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