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City Hall in Milwaukee

Date: 1905
Description: Slightly elevated view of Milwaukee City Hall. Caption reads: "City Hall, Milwaukee, Wis."
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Oneida Street, Looking West

Date: 1910
Description: View down Oneida Street, looking west, showing City Hall. Caption reads: "Oneida Street, looking West, Milwaukee."
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Milwaukee's Flying Machine

Date: 1912
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...
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Union Depot

Date: 1908
Description: Union Depot with clock tower. The railroad station with clock tower is behind a park. Horse-drawn vehicles are near the entrance. Caption reads: "Union Dep...
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Streetcar Viaduct

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated view across valley toward a streetcar viaduct on the Waukesha Interurban Line, near Milwaukee. Caption reads: "Street Car Bridge on Waukesha Inter...
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1948
Description: A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h...
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Milwaukee Mail Truck

Date: 1909
Description: Milwaukee's first mail truck, here referred to as an "auto car." The date comes from a similar postcard that is postmarked. Caption reads: "Auto Car in Ma...
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High Life in Milwaukee

Date: 1911
Description: Humorous cartoon postcard showing a man flying an airplane constructed primarily of beer bottles, pretzels and sausages, and powered by Miller beer over th...
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Downtown Aerial View

Date: 1925
Description: Downtown aerial view with the Milwaukee River and City Hall. Caption reads: "Downtown Aerial View, Milwaukee, Wis."
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Allis Chalmers Company's Plant

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of factory with yellow walls and blue roofs. Lake and trains in background, with a tree-lined boulevard in the foreground. Caption reads: "Al...
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Allis-Chalmer's Company

Date: 1910
Description: Aerial view of the factory surrounded by fields, roads, and several houses, as well as the railroad tracks that go around the building. Caption reads: "Wes...
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Armory

Date: 1910
Description: View across street toward the Armory, with the police station on the right, and private residence on the left. Caption reads: "Armory, Milwaukee, Wis."
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Milwaukee Auditorium

Date: 1910
Description: Color postcard of the New Auditorium. The road in front has three cars, several horse-drawn carriages, and several people. Caption reads: "The New Auditori...
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Interior of the Milwaukee Auditorium

Date: 1910
Description: Interior of auditorium with a large open dance floor, a stage in the center background, and seats on the sides with balcony seating. The ceiling has a long...
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Belmont Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: View across intersection toward the hotel. Cars and pedestrians are in the street. Caption reads: "Hotel Belmont, Corner 4th and Wells Sts., Milwaukee."
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Chesebro's

Date: 1915
Description: A tea shop and a women's apparel shop, located at 236 Prospect Avenue. The building has a corner turret, a front porch, and vines growing up the sides. Ca...
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Passenger Station

Date: 1910
Description: View of the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway passenger station at W. Everett Street between N. 3rd and N. 4th Streets. View is from the across the st...
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Soldier's Monument

Date: 1900
Description: Soldier's Monument on Grand Avenue, with a wreath places at the base. Steeples of a church are in the background. Scroll work has been added to the upper a...
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Civil War Soldiers' Monument

Date: 1910
Description: Grand Avenue (now Wisconsin Avenue). A church building is in the background on the left. Caption reads: "Soldiers' Monument, Grand Avenue, Milwaukee."
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Commission House District

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of Lower Broadway with horse-drawn vehicles on both sides of the road. A long red building is in the left foreground angling to the right. A ...

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