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Lowell Damon House

Date: 1935
Description: The main entrance to the Lowell Damon home. Snow is on the ground.
Photograph

Young Girl with Purse and Hat

Date: 1944
Description: Jo-Claren Maurin (b. 1942) sitting on the stoop of her house in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin wearing a red straw hat and holding a matching red straw purse. She is...
Photograph

Portrait of Laura Graf

Date: 1960
Description: Portrait of Laura Graf seated in a chair at her home in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. A bookcase is behind her. Laura was born September 2, 1898 in Pewaukee (Wa...
Map or Atlas

Wauwatosa Wisconsin Zoning Map

Date: 1947
Description: This map of Wauwatosa shows 10 zoning class types of land including residential, manufacturing, and business. The map also shows government buildings, some...
Map or Atlas

Zoning Map Showing Use Districts Town of Wauwatosa Milwaukee County Wisconsin

Date: 1939
Description: This is a zoning map of Wauwatosa with a key of districts including agricultural, resident, business, commercial, and industrial. The map features labeled ...
Map or Atlas

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin : Zoning

Date: 1965
Description: This map shows 32 zoning districts, house numbering system, parks, cemeteries, and Milwaukee County institutional buildings.
Photograph

Champion American Elm

Date: 1968
Description: A towering specimen of Ulmus americana standing along the river in the Menomonee River Parkway. There are large blocks of ice on the shore. This tre...
Photograph

Dr. Carleton Washburne

Date: 02 10 1955
Description: A man is showing a folded sheet of paper to three women and is gesturing toward it with his pipe. Caption reads: "An educational expert, Dr. Carleton Washb...
Photograph

Wedding Celebration

Date: 07 21 1898
Description: Well-dressed men, women and children are sitting at long tables, and more people are standing in the background for a group portrait at a wedding reception...
Photograph

Underwood School Food Festival

Date: 03 28 1955
Description: Two girls are smiling and looking at a loaf of sliced and apparently frosted food. Caption reads: "A bread loaf filled with peanut butter and topped...
Photograph

Officer Rutowski and Figuaroa Sisters

Date: 02 28 1958
Description: A uniformed police officer is handing a teddy bear to a young child, as another child is eating and smiling. Caption reads: "Wauwatosa's police station<...
Photograph

Robert C. Brassard

Date: 03 02 1962
Description: Overhead view of two men, who are standing on opposite sides of a table. They are facing each other and each has his right hand raised. Caption reads: "...
Postcard

Wauwatosa School

Date: 08 29 1906
Description: Handwritten on front: "Wauwatosa School." A cyanotype postcard of a brick, multistory school, the stone plaque reads: "Public School." Arched doorways, lar...
Postcard

Public School

Date: 03 03 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Public School, Wauwatosa, Wis." The building on the right was the original school, the building on the left was added later. The buil...
Postcard

Lefeber Brothers Company Store

Date: 08 24 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Lefebre [sic] Bros. Co.'s Store. Wauwatosa, Wis." A two story, brick building with a parapet and large display windows with transoms ...
Postcard

North Main Street Looking West

Date: 05 30 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "North Main St. looking West, Wauwatosa, Wis." Streetcars on an unpaved street with horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians. The street i...
Postcard

Gymnasium, Milwaukee Sanitarium

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Gymnasium, Milwaukee Sanitarium, Wauwatosa, Wis." A brick gymnasium at the Milwaukee Sanitarium, a privately held institution for the...
Postcard

First Congregational Church

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "First Congregational Church, Wauwatosa, Wis." The entrance to a brick, Georgian Revival church built in 1919. The portico has four Do...
Postcard

West House, Milwaukee Sanitarium

Date: 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "West House, Milwaukee Sanitarium, Wauwatosa, Wis. A three-story brick building at the Milwaukee Sanitarium, a privately held institut...
Postcard

New County General Hospital

Date: 03 25 1937
Description: Text on front reads: "New County General Hospital. Milwaukee County Institutions. Wauwatosa, Wis." A multistory, Neoclassical, cream brick hospital built i...

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