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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Buildings along Wisconsin Avenue lining a wide dirt road. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | 2504 Forest Home Avenue. This hotel was situated on what was originally a plank road between Milwaukee and Muskego. It was designed after the Federal style... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | Map of Milwaukee including the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan shore. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company branch house building. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of elevated view of Newhall House which was destroyed by fire in 1883. |
| 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: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a man and young boy shoveling snow from a sidewalk after a heavy snowfall. |
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| Description: | Lincoln Beachey is considered by many to be the greatest aviator of his era. He is pictured here about to take off in his Curtiss pusher, wearing his signa... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dr. A. Rudolph Silverston's vacu-aerial flying machine, as seen from the rear. Handwritten at top: "Rear View." Caption at bottom reads: "Silverston's Milw... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Workers tending the grounds of the Forest Home Cemetery using a McCormick-Deering I-12 tractor and wagon. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Thermo Therapae building at Fourth and Sycamore Streets. It was also known as Dr. Hanson's Thermo Water Cure. |
| Date: | 12 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Neon lights up Wisconsin Avenue on a winter night in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 10 13 1936 |
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| Description: | Milkman delivering milk to the Hotel Juneau. The International C-300 truck was owned by Golden Guernsey Dairy Co. A sign above the hotel awning advertises ... |
| Date: | 07 05 1938 |
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| Description: | Iceman delivering a block of ice from an International D-300 streamlined truck to an office building in downtown Milwaukee. The man worked for the Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 06 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Control tower and entrance to the new Howell Street passenger terminal at General Mitchell Field shortly before its formal opening in July 1955. The Milwau... |
| Date: | 11 20 1966 |
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| Description: | As a crowd of onlookers watch, Santa Claus alights from his special holiday helicopter with the help of an aide at Southgate Shopping Center. |
| Date: | 11 16 2001 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of General Mitchell International in Milwaukee, looking southeast to the Lake Michigan shoreline. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in a field operating a hor... |
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