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Brew House

Date: 1925
Description: View of the front and right side of the Brew house.
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Home of John Johnston, Milwaukee

Date: 1940
Description: Home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker, at 1241 N. Franklin Place (originally 645 Franklin Place); also known as "The Lion House...
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Buildings Along Milwaukee River

Date: 1940
Description: View from the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge. A building on the left has a large sign for Gimbel's on its roof. Beyond the river in the background are two large s...
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Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools

Date: 1940
Description: Central Building. Six-story building with cars along the road next to it. In the lower foreground is a parking lot with a sign listing parking as 15 cents.
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Piggsville

Date: 1940
Description: Small neighborhood of the city at the west end of the Menomonee River Valley. Overhead is the second Wisconsin Avenue Viaduct, demolished in 1992. Cars a...
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Street Lighting

Date: 1934
Description: View down road of overhead lighting equipment of the T.M.E.R. and L. Company, which, at the time had a proposal to be replaced by more modern lighting. Th...
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Genoa Junction Free Public Library

Date: 10 07 1905
Description: Interior view of the Genoa Junction Free Public Library. Reverse of cardboard mounting reads: "Genoa Junction Free Public Library, Genoa Junction, Wisconsi...
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Stephenson Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Stephenson Public Library. The library opened in 1903 funded with a gift from Isaac Stephenson of $30,000. Reverse of mounting cardboa...
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Stephenson Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Stephenson Public Library. Library furniture, bookshelves, a picture display and a door are visible. A note on the cardboard backing r...
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Stephenson Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Stephenson Public Library. The library opened in 1903 funded with a gift from Isaac Stephenson of $30,000. Reverse of cardboard backin...
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Stephenson Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Stephenson Public Library. Reverse on the cardboard backing reads: "Built 1903, cost $30,000, Patton, Miller, Chicago, arch." In the f...
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Stephenson Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Stephenson Public Library. In the foreground is a large octagon librarian's desk surrounded by columns. Bookshelves are along the wall...
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Stephenson Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Stephenson Public Library. Cardboard backing reads: "Marinette - Lecture room - Stephenson Public Library." Reverse of cardboard backi...
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Foreign Missions Receipt

Date: 1856
Description: Receipt issued by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions to Frederick Smith for a contribution of ten cents from the Sabbath School of the...
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Clara Kimball Young and a Chow

Date: 1919
Description: Clara Kimball Young and a chow sitting in the sun on the stoop in front of a stucco house. Original caption: "Clara Kimball Young and her prize Chow do...
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Northern Wisconsin Center Home Economics Class

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of six women wearing aprons learning domestic skills in a kitchen classroom. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, t...
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Terraced Drainage

Date: 1936
Description: A level pasture terrace showing water in the channel. These terraces, largely experimental, are built on the level, drainage being provided for by means of...
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Leisure Hour

Date: 1932
Description: Several students have gathered around the piano for "Leisure Hour" at Star Center School, District No. 8, Bloomfield. Other students work at their desks. T...
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Interior of Conrad Schmitt Home

Date: 1905
Description: Interior view of the parlor of the Conrad Schmitt (Sherwin Gillett's father-in-law) home. Family photographs are on the wall and on the piano.
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Locomotive Boiler Explosion

Date: 09 27 1908
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of the badly damaged Engine No. 423 of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. The boiler remains on the railroad ...

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