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| 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: | 01 01 1914 |
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| Description: | People sitting at a table in a dance hall wine room at 2:00 a.m. |
| Date: | 11 03 1962 |
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| Description: | Majorettes dancing in a parade. They were members of the Milwaukee Continentals marching band. |
| Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
| Date: | 09 26 1984 |
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| Description: | A woman uses an early commercial computer network that allows travel agents to book their own flights without the use of a telephone. |
| Date: | 01 23 1958 |
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| Description: | Female telephone switchboard operator at work. |
| Date: | 05 08 1964 |
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| Description: | A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business. |
| Date: | 04 17 1964 |
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| Description: | A clerk checks real estate property information in a vast filing system housed in a vault. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange. |
| Date: | 11 12 1987 |
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| Description: | A waitress serves a group of older Italian-American men in a diner. |
| Date: | 11 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Women campaign workers call voters to support the Labor Political League and vote for candidates sympathetic to Labor issues. |
| Date: | 09 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years. |
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| Description: | People sitting at tables, drinking and talking. A large banner with a picture of Thaddeus Kosciuszko hangs on the wall. |
| Date: | 11 02 1913 |
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| Description: | People sitting at tables, drinking and talking at 2 a.m. in one of two wine rooms at the South Side Kindergarten Hall, 396 Greenbush Street. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Pabst Theater Building at E. Wells and N. Water Street. The Hotel Blatz is on the left. |
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| Description: | Marchers carrying signs bearing the names of Milwaukee suburbs during a CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) march for fair housing in Milwaukee. They are pa... |
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| Description: | Drawing of a two-story building with a roof that slopes down to one story in the back. Two men are on the porch talking, a third is coming off a boat from ... |
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| Description: | A group of motorcyclists, both male and female, are lined up in front of a sidewalk, with a group of people standing behind them in front of an awning for ... |
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| Description: | Women posing for a group portrait at the Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees' Picnic. Women in the front row are holding open parasols in front of them, ... |
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