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Coaching Party Departing for Scottish Games

Date: 08 31 1909
Description: A coaching party of festively clad men, women, and children departing for the Annual Scottish Games sponsored by the St. Andrews Society. Some participants...
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Kleinstueber Machine Shop

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Description: Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F...
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Self-Service Supermarket

Date: 1953
Description: A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market.
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Walter Allen School

Date: 1890
Description: Exterior of Walter Allen School, with a woman in a carriage parked in front. The Walter Allen School was an elementary school located at 1657 South Third S...
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Downtown Milwaukee

Date: 1910
Description: Grand Avenue at 4th Street looking east. The Alhambra Theatre is on the left. Pedestrians are on the streets and sidewalks, and horse-drawn vehicles are on...
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Buggy Race with Fred Pabst

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Description: Two men are racing small horse-drawn buggies on a dirt track at an exhibition at the Pabst Farms. The man on the left is identified as Fred Pabst, Milwauke...
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Dining Tent

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Description: The Trinity M.E. Church Dining Hall set in a tent in a field near other tents. Two banners advertise the dining hall, and a chalkboard on the right lists t...
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Three Young People

Date: 1896
Description: Snapshot of a young man with two young women chatting on Wisconsin Street. The scene is near the Grand Avenue bridge which appears in the background.
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Irene Janokuchi in the Holiday Folk Fair Parade

Date: 1967
Description: Irene Janokuchi, the official Holiday Folk Fair hostess, is riding in a rickshaw in the parade. She is wearing a red and white kimono and holding a bouquet...

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