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Sinclair Service Station

Date: 1938
Description: Three uniformed employees of the Sinclair Oil Company Service Station, located at 501 East Broadway, standing in front of the station's gas pumps. Two life...
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Home Built Heath

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Description: Carl, Robert, and Ray Breecher at work on their modified parasol Heath airplane. After months of hard work, the plane was completely destroyed during a tes...
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Walter's Airline

Date: 1925
Description: Walter Liskowitz of Waukesha in his two-place Standard. This photograph was taken shortly after he organized Walter's Airline to provide service to Chicago...
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Waukesha Aviation Club Youth Outreach

Date: 1945
Description: A demonstration of parachute handling for members of a local YMCA by the Waukesha Aviation Club. The club considered such educational activities for young ...
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Aerial Photography Business Card

Date: 1925
Description: The business card of Waukesha photographer Warren O'Brien, a pioneer in aerial photography in Wisconsin. The illustration shows him sitting on the wing of ...
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Waukesha Flying Club

Date: 05 25 1931
Description: The Waukesha Flying Club and their jointly owned Waco 10. The members are (row 1, left to right) Charles Gittner, Joe Rombough, and Roy Winzenreid and (row...
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Waukesha Flyers

Date: 1932
Description: Fritz Warden (at the propeller) and Lee Barney, two young members of the Waukesha Flying Club, together with Barney's Aeronica C2 airplane. The Aeronica w...
Map or Atlas

Waukesha, Wis.

Date: 1857
Description: Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th...
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Wisconsin Central Locomotive

Date: 1896
Description: Wisconsin Central Railway's locomotive # 96 at the Waukesha depot.
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Automobile on Country Road

Date: 08 23 1917
Description: Man, possibly Joseph Brown, attending to an automobile on the road between Waukesha and Ionsman. Rural landscape and farm in the background.
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Man with International A-5 Concrete Truck

Date: 1931
Description: A man is standing on top of an International A-5 truck which is parked beneath a concrete spout to fill the tank on the truck bed.
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Pouring Concrete Into International A-5 Truck

Date: 1931
Description: A man is standing on top of an International A-5 truck, filling a tank with concrete. A man wearing a hat is standing above him looking out of a window in ...
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Cement Truck

Date: 1931
Description: A man loading cement into the back of an International Model A-5 truck. The automobile is marked on the driver's side door with the words: "Cayll & Barrett...
Print

Fountain Spring House Menu

Date: 08 01 1889
Description: Exterior and interior menu listing of the Fountain Spring House, with visitors strolling the grounds of a tree-filled park with the hotel in the background...
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John Blaine Outside a Hospital in Waukesha

Date: 1922
Description: Group portrait of men standing outside of a hospital entrance. From right to left: John J. Blaine, Wisconsin's 24th governor; Albert A. Fuller of Albert A....
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Alfalfa Ricks on Cornfalfa Farm

Date: 1913
Description: Four men posing near a large, tall stack of alfalfa. One man is sitting in an automobile. The ricks of alfalfa are on the Swartz Brothers' Cornfalfa Farm i...
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Ricky Chones

Date: 06 27 1989
Description: A man in a wheelchair is passing a basketball to someone in the foreground. Caption reads: "The Waukesha Park and Recreation Department, in cooperation wit...
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Asahel Spring

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of a group of men and women relaxing around a spring with concentric steps of limestone. The man on the right, holding the dipper, is Dr. Hugo ...
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Farm Elm

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Description: A man is posing in a horse-drawn buggy on the drive in front of a tree-lined fence. Caption on slide reads: "Farm elm near Waukesha, Wis." Hand-tinted lant...
Postcard

Fountain Spring House

Date: 07 14 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Fountain Spring House, Waukesha, Wis." On July 4, 1874, the Fountain Spring House opened for business. Built of Waukesha limestone, t...

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