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| Date: | 12 20 1879 |
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| Description: | A program for a Christmas event at Toechter Institut. |
| Date: | 12 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation) at a holiday costume party. |
| Date: | 04 04 1969 |
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| Description: | Rabbits as big as 6-month-old Jennifer Tetzlaff sit in and near an Easter basket while she plays with cellophane "grass." |
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| Description: | View of building. Text in English and German reads: "A Happy New Year" and "Glueckliches Neujahr." Caption at bottom reads: "The Wells Building." and "Well... |
| Date: | 05 30 1904 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph of Old Abe, Wisconsin War Eagle. The title reads: "Memorial Day in Wisconsin Schools." |
| Date: | 05 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Memorial Day, "Poppy Day," Committee. Three men in uniform stand for a group portrait in front of a stucco wall. |
| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | A woman overlooks the Labor-at-the-Lakefront festival next to a banner that reads "Buy Union," "Buy Made in USA," and "Keep the Heart of America Beating." |
| Date: | 11 25 1965 |
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| Description: | A man takes pleasure in the carving of the Thanksgiving turkey, with other food items in the foreground and vending machines behind him. |
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| Description: | A woman dressed for winter weather and seated in the back of a touring car, looks coyly at the photographer. She is surrounded by holiday gifts and package... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Five children dressed in Halloween costumes with jack-o-lanterns hanging overhead. Two of them are Robert J. Taylor's daughters, Ellen and Donna Taylor. |
| Date: | 03 31 1934 |
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| Description: | Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder, second from left, is sitting at a small kitchen table surrounded by her children, from left, Herbert E., Philip, ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1987 |
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| Description: | Amanda Basile of Milwaukee's Northwest side dressed as the Milwaukee Journal Green Sheet for Halloween. She made the costume with her mother Penny Chapman ... |
| Date: | 05 31 1962 |
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| Description: | View along side of street towards a teenage brass band marching down the street in a Memorial Day parade in West Allis. A group of young children stand on ... |
| Date: | 12 19 1984 |
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| Description: | Hanukkah Ceremony - Abraham Anton uses a servant candle, called the Shamas, to light the first candle of Hanukkah Tuesday night as fellow students watch at... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The "Milwaukee Journal's" holiday card with a scene of two women in front of a town scene done in the Old English style. A man inside of a shop door is tip... |
| Date: | 11 29 1906 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu pages of the a la carte and table d'hote options for Thanksgiving dinner at the Schlitz Hotel, with a boy wearing only a chef's hat an... |
| Date: | 10 31 1963 |
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| Description: | A group of children in Halloween costumes are reaching out their hands. Caption reads: "Night for Beggars Spooks and goblins prowled the city... |
| Date: | 04 08 1928 |
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| Description: | Five children are posing near the fireplace in the living room of the Herbert P. Brumder residence at 2030 East Lafayette Place. They are, from left, Phili... |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Artisans Day Ribbon possibly worn during parade in Milwaukee, September 3, 1888. (Museum object #H12653) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Festivus pole made of extruded aluminum alloy, manufacturer The Wagner Companies, Milwaukee, WI, used by Gov. Jim Doyle, 2005.(Museum object 2007.84.1A-C) |
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