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Downtown Street

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Description: A downtown Milwaukee street with beer wagon, pedestrians, a bicyclist, and a horse-drawn wagon loaded with beer barrels.
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International B-4 Beer Truck Delivering Hudepohl Beer

Date: 06 23 1933
Description: Men unloading barrels of Hudepohl beer from an International B-4 truck in front of the "Bay Horse Exchange." Other stores on the city street include the Ma...
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Famous Beverwyck Beer Delivery Truck and Wagon

Date: 07 24 1933
Description: International Model A-4 motor truck with a 185-inch wheel base, and a horse-drawn wagon hauling Famous Beverwyck Beer. The horse-drawn trailer contains bee...
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Miller Wagon and Truck

Date: 1939
Description: The Miller Brewing wagon, filled with barrels of beer, and a Miller delivery truck. The caption on the photograph reads "1855-1939".
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Men Delivering Leisy's Beer from International Truck

Date: 1935
Description: Two men are rolling Leisy's beer barrels from an International truck on a downtown street. The truck was owned by Leisy Brewery.
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Men on Street near Puddle

Date: 1905
Description: Men standing around a puddle alongside a road near a small snowbank. One man is bending down near the puddle with a hammer in his hand. Signs for beer are ...
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Interior of a Bar

Date: 1969
Description: An electric Schaefer Beer sign and a television near a window are visible from the inside of a bar.
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Milwaukee Ships and River Views

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Description: View across the Milwaukee River, showing advertisements for the Riverside Printing House, Book and Job Printing, Spring Street Lager Beer Hall, and Hood an...
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Graffiti on a Door

Date: 1969
Description: Graffiti on a green door reads, "Kuken was here." A Miller beer bottle is on the doorstep.
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"Imitativeness: Take Me Like a Prize-Fighter"

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Description: A group of boys take a boxing stance near two men standing on a street corner, in front of a building that has "Milwaukee Beer" painted on it.
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Group Working in Garden

Date: 1920
Description: Children and two women, possibly a school group, work with hand tools in an urban garden. An elevated railroad is in the background, along with the Acme St...
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Saloon Recreation Center

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Description: Exterior of saloon recreation center, with "1886 PH Best Brewing Co." etched onto the brick above the windows. The windows have lettering advertising "Summ...
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NAACP Protest

Date: 09 1958
Description: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) picketers outside the Schroeder Hotel where the Apprenticeship meeting was held. A Blatz...
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Children with Schoolbuses

Date: 1935
Description: Two International buses owned by Monongalia County Schools parked in a street. Children and adults stand on the sidewalks surrounding the buses. A commerci...
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Bootleg Days

Date: 08 23 1933
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...
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Schlitz Palm Garden

Date: 07 03 1886
Description: The east side of the Schlitz Palm Garden at N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue. The Schlitz Palm Garden opened on July 3, 1886 and was one of the ...
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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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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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Man Delivering Bread to New York Grocery Store

Date: 1970
Description: View from street of a man delivering Levy and Sons Bakery rye bread to a New York City delicatessen and grocery store. The truck is an International Harves...

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