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| Date: | 08 15 1937 |
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| Description: | Employees of Don's Delivery Service, Inc. near the main Post Office, with Harley Davidson motorcycles and a closed panel truck. They are parked across the ... |
| Date: | 05 27 1939 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin in a police uniform, standing in front of a motorcycle and a life-sized poster of four movie stars on a tandem bicycle. This event occurred... |
| Date: | 03 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Keen Power Cycle, a streamline style motor scooter, made by Keen Manufacturing Company, located at 2117 Atwood Avenue. The view includes a trailer hitch an... |
| Date: | 03 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Keen Power Cycle, a streamline style motor scooter, made by Keen Manufacturing Co., 2117 Atwood Avenue, displayed outside on Atwood Avenue with two people ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1935 |
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| Description: | A man in a labcoat shows off a car hitched to a service motorcycle in front of Waters Motor's Co., 802 E. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 07 22 1935 |
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| Description: | A car pulling service towing a motorcycle in front of Waters Motor's Company, located at 802 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 05 16 1935 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of police officers receiving insurance policies in front of the Madison Police Station, 14-16 South Webster Street, with motorcycles parked ... |
| Date: | 05 26 1934 |
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| Description: | Dane County traffic officers standing next to new Ford V8 automobiles and Harley-Davidson motorcycles. |
| Date: | 05 26 1934 |
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| Description: | Dane County traffic police officers on their new Harley-Davidson motorcycles. |
| Date: | 10 01 1932 |
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| Description: | Bus and streetcar accident at Regent Street and Mills Street, looking north on Mills. |
| Date: | 04 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking across street towards a crowd waiting to attend the opening of the Black Furniture Company's bankrupt sale at Leath's furniture store... |
| Date: | 05 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Four Dane County motor police officers shown with four Harley Davidson motorcycles, and two other men, taken in front of Madison Battery and Tire, 250 Stat... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Two police officers, one on a motorcycle with sidecar on the corner of Mifflin and Carroll Street, on the Capitol Square. A large Santa Claus cutout is lo... |
| Date: | 10 01 1932 |
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| Description: | Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee in 1932. FDR is riding in a flag-draped open car and escorted by police on motorcycles. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Ralph Hilgers, wearing sunglasses, is seated on his 74 Harley-Davidson twin cylinder, late 1920's model motorcycle. His motorcycle is shown with a prototyp... |
| Milwaukee's First Photojournalist |
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| Read about the life and career of photojournalist John Robert Taylor, who captured the spirit of Milwaukee through photographs in the early 20th century. |
| Wisconsin and the Invention of the Car |
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| Discover how Wisconsin's influence on the automobile and tourist culture. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle parked along a gravel road near a stone wall. He is wearing leather gloves, a jacket, dark pants, lace-u... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Raymond (Ray) Griesemer is sitting on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He is wearing a jacket, dark pants and boots. In the background is a field with grass... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | A group of Harley-Davidson riders stopping for a rest on the side of the highway at the Wisconsin-Illinois border. A man and a woman, wearing Milwaukee Mot... |
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