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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Two men ride their bicycles past curious on-lookers. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a sled pulled by a team of two horses that is carrying logs on a snow-covered road. Moving away from the log-carrying sled is an empty egg-... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of two men standing on a snowy street with the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the background. They are holding snow shovels. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Women's Relief Corps with umbrellas parading down the street. Stuffed eagle parading as "Old Abe." Directly behind the two flags are, from left to right: ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A crew of men crushing rock for Senator James H. Stout's improved highway. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Street cars and busy pedestrian traffic mingle in this view of the 200 West Water Street block in downtown Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Baker and Anne Ashley gathering raspberries and getting milk on the road to Grant's Point on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Snow covers a streetcar and pedestrians walk through a snow-covered street. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Commemorating one hundred years of Norwegian independence at a Syttende Mai (May 17th) celebration. An automobile with four people is decorated with a Norw... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman and a child sit on a railing and look out from the porch of their house. A man is in the background approaching from a car parked in the street. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Yellow Cab Transfer Company located at 643 E. Wilson Street, (housed in the Denison Building) with two cabs with drivers out front. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A street gathering of people interested in using war-salvaged explosives for a land clearance program. |
| Date: | 03 18 1924 |
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| Description: | "Clock at Goldman's Jewelry Store, corner of Wisconsin Avenue and E. Water Street, run down by a truck." A crowd gathers around the broken clock. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Triangle filling station on Highway 12, which sold gasoline, ice, and other items. A man stands in front by the gas pump, and a map of... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Well-dressed relatives leave a house where they attended a family gathering. |
| Date: | 07 26 1947 |
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| Description: | Crowd and officials watch Soap Box Derby contestants at the finish line on East Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | The Brooklyn Grange parade float in a Labor Day parade. Men and women on the float mimic various household and recreational activities. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View down road towards two people walking in front of the Thienville Mills, a five-story stone building, built in 1876. At this time, it was the Thiensvill... |
| Date: | 09 12 1961 |
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| Description: | People cross a State Street intersection in the rain. The College Barber Shop and a Steak House is on the other side of the street. |
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