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Americanization Pageant

Date: 05 18 1919
Description: Scene from Poale Zion Chasidim, an Americanization pageant held in the Milwaukee auditorium to welcome Milwaukee's new citizens.
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Registering to Vote

Date: 09 02 1954
Description: A group of newly naturalized citizens registering to vote at City Hall.
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Salvator and Thelma Moshe Picnicking

Date: 1950
Description: Holocaust survivor Salvator Moshe and his wife, Thelma, picnicking at Southshore Park.
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MEChA de UW-Madison at the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A large crowd of protesters standing on the street outside the Republican presidential debate. The group are mostly college age, although a young boy is st...
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May Day Demonstration

Date: 05 01 2006
Description: Elevated view of a large group of people, largely from the Latino community, marching from Walker's Point, through the downtown, to the Lake Michigan lakef...
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Reverend Monseigneur P. M. Abbelen

Date: 1890
Description: Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of Reverend Monseigneur Peter Matthias Abbelen, who was vicar general of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and later spirit...
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Charles Abresch

Date: 
Description: Lithographic caricature of a man holding two vehicles, and surrounded by other vehicles and a factory. He is identified as Charles Abresch, a German immigr...
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David Adler

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Description: Lithographic portrait of David Adler, a retail clothier, one of the organizers of the Wisconsin National Bank, one of the founders and a vice-president of ...
Photograph

Solomon Adler

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Description: Engraving of a portrait of Solomon Adler, a clothing merchant and brother to David Adler. He assisted in conducting the first Jewish service in Wisconsin, ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Tells tale of first settlers

Date: 1916-06-11
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Layton recalls pioneer history

Date: 1918-05-17
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Pioneer builders have seen this city advance

Date: 1917-09-08
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Lived here before state was carved

Date: 1909-07-14
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Braved hardships to build homes here

Date: 1933-06-18
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Recalls early Milwaukee days

Date: 1916-03-23
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Saw swamps become a city

Date: 1935-04-14
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Ernest L. Meyer Milwaukee nights - 1910

Date: 1931-11-17
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Milwaukee's first home

Date: 1905-02-07
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Our first soldiers

Date: 1930-10-23
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Missionaries and voyageurs who first set foot on site and the traders who founded the city were of Latin lineage

Date: 1927-03-13
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee

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