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Milwaukee Light Guard

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Description: Illustration of the Milwaukee Light Guard depicting four men, including captain J.C. Starkweather. This is a cover from sheet music "Milwaukee Light Guard ...
Poster

Milwaukee Public School Rules

Date: 1846
Description: "Rules to be observed by the pupils of public schools of Milwaukee."
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Fauerbach's Brewery Sign

Date: 1884
Description: A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery.
Drawing

Jane Addams of Hull House

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Description: Jane Addams holding an open book, surrounded by immigrant children.
Photograph

Aerial View of the Madison Isthmus

Date: 05 09 1908
Description: Kite aerial panoramic photograph of the central business district. In the distance is Lake Mendota. The fire damaged Wisconsin State Capitol is in the cent...
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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee

Date: 1882
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee looking south down 8th Street from Schlitz's Park.
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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee from Bay View.
Drawing

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Chamber Plan

Date: 1860
Description: Floor plan and seating chart for the Assembly for their first meeting in the East Wing of new Wisconsin State Capitol building. After the completion of th...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Detail

Date: 03 15 1899
Description: Detail of the Assembly Chamber photograph focusing on the journalists seated near the front of the room. During the 19th century, coverage of Capitol news ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Aerial View of Town

Date: 1935
Description: Aerial view of town. Caption reads: "No. 25. Markesan, in Green Lake county, on state trunk highway 103, is a town of homes. Its inhabitants number 1,000."
Photograph

St. Benedict's Convent on Lake Mendota

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of St. Benedict's convent, mother house, novitiate on the north shore of Lake Mendota (aka Fox Bluff), built in 1953. From 1959 - 1966 it was ...
Drawing

Milwaukee Public Library and Museum Plan

Date: 1898
Description: Design for the plan of the first and second floors, accepted through a competition. The museum space is at the far left.
Drawing

Paul Bunyan

Date: 1916
Description: Drawing of a wild-looking Paul Bunyan.
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Auction Sale on the Leo Melcher Farm

Date: 1889
Description: Broadside advertising an auction on the Leo Melcher farm. Items for sale included livestock, feed and crops, farm machinery, and household items including ...
Poster

Union Pacific Railway Travel Poster: Boulder Dam

Date: 1935
Description: An original lithograph promoting the Boulder Dam enroute to California via the Union Pacific Railway. The poster features an aerial photograph of the "Worl...
Poster

Chemins de Fer électrique du Valais à Chamonix Travel Poster

Date: 1900
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Chemins de Fer électrique du Valais à Chamonix (Electric Railways of Valais in Chamonix) railway. The poster...
Poster

Underground Electric Railway Company: Motor Bus Travel Poster

Date: 1924
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the "The Way to London's Country by Motor Bus" using the Underground Electric Railway Company's motor bus servic...
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Flags and Pledge of Allegiance

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Description: Images of American and British flags illustrate the Pledge of Allegiance, originally composed by Francis Bellamy, as well as a quote from Oliver Wendell Ho...
Photograph

The History of Wisconsin Poster

Date: 1893
Description: John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo...

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