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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn fire wagon coming down a cobblestone street in Milwaukee. The fact that automobiles are also in the photograph suggests that the transition to ... |
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| Description: | Leaving Milwaukee harbor via tugboat, this was the final voyage of the Lucia B. Simpson. Made in 1928, the Simpson was the last of the lake lumber s... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the West Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. |
| Date: | 10 30 1944 |
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| Description: | View across railroads tracks towards the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad station. A number of children and adults are standing around the station. S... |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor, the first photographer for the Milwaukee Journal, poses in a formal portrait, standing with his pipe. He wears a cravat style tie ... |
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| Description: | Newspaper workers perusing hundreds of photographs. There are three men holding some of the photographs and the rest are mounted on the walls around them. |
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| Description: | "Conrad Starke" (possibly a tugboat) cruising on the water near a bridge in an industrial area. The waterway is probably connected to Lake Michigan. Three ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man (maybe a railroad worker or a tramp) standing along a railroad track next to a small cooking fire. Railroad cars are in the background. |
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| Description: | A car (possible a Model T) parked in the grass with a family sitting inside. There are other people with cars in the background under trees, and people sit... |
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| Description: | View across multiple sets of railroad tracks towards two locomotives at a railroad city yard in Milwaukee (probably the Hiawatha). There is a dense cloud o... |
| Date: | 06 30 1917 |
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| Description: | Damaged ship on the Milwaukee River. The Christopher Columbus was a popular cruise vessel launched in 1893 and used to traverse the Great Lakes. On ... |
| Date: | 09 01 1912 |
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| Description: | Theodore Roosevelt in front of the Deutscher Club. The club later became the Wisconsin Club. |
| Date: | 10 30 1944 |
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| Description: | The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway depot. A number of pedestrians are waiting for the train. |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Docks and shanties at Jones Island, with smokestacks and cranes in the background. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Front view of the photographer J. Robert Taylor on his motorcycle. |
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| Description: | A tugboat pulling a steamer in the harbor of Lake Michigan. Steam is billowing from the stacks of the steamer. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards oncrete locks on a narrow river in winter. Snow is on the ground, and a water tower and smokestack are on the other side of the... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a car buried in fresh snow while parked outside a building. |
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