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Schlitz Beer Display

Date: 04 18 1945
Description: Schlitz display with four bottles of beer displayed as flowers with sign "Summer Time is Schlitz Time."
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Schlitz Grain Elevator

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Description: Grain elevator with large Schlitz sign. There are railroad cars on a railroad track in the foreground.
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Schlitz, The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous

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Description: Cover art featuring Milwaukee from promotional booklet of views of the Schlitz Brewery.
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Jolly Tavern Before Redecorating

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: A neon Schlitz beer sign highlights an exterior view of Harold F. Reider's Jolly Tavern, 848 Williamson Street.
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Hotel Charlotte and Surrounding Buildings

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue. Landmarks left to right: Schlitz Palm Garden, Hotel Charlotte, Randolph Garden and Hotel Rand...
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Goal Post Restaurant

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: Storefront of Goal Post Restaurant and Tavern, 1515 Monroe Street, display window featuring bottles of Schlitz beer and 7-UP with a pinball machine visible...
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Milwaukee Brewery Grain Elevators

Date: 1938
Description: View across the Kinnickinnic River of the Pabst brewery grain elevator. A Schlitz building, possibly one of their grain elevators, stands behind the Pabst ...
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Steinbacher's Saloon

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of the bar owned by Rudolph Steinbacher at the corner of 16th Street and St. Paul Avenue. A large sign for Schlitz beer is painted on the wa...
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Laurel Tavern Storefront

Date: 08 16 1945
Description: Exterior view of the Laurel Tavern, 2505 Monroe Street. The storefront window contains a display of two Schlitz Beer bottle pyramids, two large bottles of ...
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Horse-Drawn Trolley

Date: 1890
Description: Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising...
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Employment Office

Date: 08 09 1934
Description: Office of the Wisconsin State Employment Service. View of King Street looking toward Capitol Square from East Doty Street. Businesses in view include Quisl...
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Unidentified Downtown

Date: 1935
Description: View of a small brick building, probably a service station, with the word "AIR" painted on the bricks, on the south east corner of 9th Ave. West and 2nd St...
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The Simeon Mills Block

Date: 1973
Description: View across King Street towards The Gallery Inn restaurant, on the left, and the Buy Sell shop with a show window on the corner of King and Webster streets...
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Mose Bone Sample Room

Date: 1900
Description: Men at the Mose Bone Sample Room. Two men are sitting on chairs on the porch in front. A male dwarf is walking on the board sidewalk in front of the saloon...
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C.A. Haugner Building and The Rane Barrel

Date: 1973
Description: View across West Gilman Street towards two brick buildings. The one on the right is the C.A. Haugner Building, which houses apartments on the second floor ...
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Hotel Menard on Main Street

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of Hotel Menard, a three-story building with what appears to be brick and wood siding. Looking down Main Street West, what used to be called ...

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