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Collings Vehicle and Harness Catalog

Date: 11 13 1914
Description: Cover art for Collings Vehicle and Harness Company catalog, comprised of International Harvester logo and black and white photograph of a man on a horse-dr...
Photograph

Deering Works seen from Diversey Avenue

Date: 1919
Description: Deering Works factory seen across the waterfront from Diversey Avenue. In the foreground is a street and sidewalk with the sign "horse vehicles keep to rig...
Photograph

Nettie Fowler McCormick at Paris Exposition

Date: 1900
Description: Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), wife of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Mrs. McCormick i...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Cart Advertising Movie

Date: 09 24 1932
Description: Horse-drawn cart advertising "Horsefeathers," a Marx Brothers movie, for the RKO Orpheum Theatre. "Mad Mirth takes a chariot ride among the wild oats."
Photograph

Circus Show Buggy and Bandwagon

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Description: Dode Fisk, the operator of a dog and pony show and circus, drives a wire-wheeled show buggy pulled by the horse "Bobby". They are photographed next to a ...
Photograph

Fire Department at Northern Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1893
Description: Institutional fire fighting department at the Northern Hospital for the Insane, executing drills on the exterior of the building. Fire fighting equipment i...
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Cheese Factory

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Description: Building thought to be a cheese factory, with workers and horse-drawn delivery wagons in the front.
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Park Hotel

Date: 1899
Description: The Park Hotel, located on the Capitol Square.
Photograph

Majestic Theater Building

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Description: Elevated view of Majestic Theater Vaudeville building, with pedestrians on the street, along with a streetcar and horse-drawn vehicles. The Schlitz Hotel i...
Photograph

City Hall

Date: 04 29 1921
Description: Elevated view of City Hall at intersection bustling with pedestrians, streetcars, and parked automobiles.
Photograph

Waldheim's Furniture Building

Date: 07 30 1918
Description: Elevated view of the Waldheim furniture building and surrounding commercial area on N. Plankinton Avenue, north of W. Wisconsin Avenue. The Waldheim Furnit...
Photograph

View of City Hall and Surrounding Buildings

Date: 08 23 1913
Description: Elevated view looking east from W. Wells street across the Milwaukee River. The E. Wells power plant (with arrow), Pabst Theater, and City Hall are on the ...
Photograph

The Manhattan Block

Date: 10 20 1914
Description: Elevated view of the Manhattan Building (tallest structure) on North 2nd Street between West Michigan Street and West Wisconsin Avenue.
Photograph

Voss Building

Date: 05 10 1910
Description: The Voss Building on N. Water Street between E. Juneau Avenue and E. Highland Avenue. J.C. Grosch Horse Shoer is to the left. There is a horse-drawn vehicl...
Photograph

Yahr and Lange Drug Co.

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Description: Elevated view of the Yahr and Lange Drug Company on N. Water Street between E. Erie and E. Chicago Streets. There are horse-drawn vehicles parked in front ...
Photograph

Sentinel Building

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Description: Elevated view of the south side of Mason Street looking east from N. Water Street, featuring the Sentinel Building. There are open windows in the Sentinel ...
Photograph

Hathaway Building

Date: 05 09 1906
Description: View from across the street of the Hathaway building, probably at the northeast corner of E. Mason Street and N. Broadway. W.M. Marnitz Co. Tailors, Gilber...
Photograph

Miller Hotel and Theater

Date: 07 31 1918
Description: Elevated view looking north on N. 3rd Street from W. Wisconsin Avenue towards the commercial district surrounding the Miller Hotel and Theater. There are s...
Document

Milwaukee House Stationery

Date: 1857
Description: Letter on stationery featuring an engraving of an exterior view of the Milwaukee House showing horse-drawn vehicles and people standing on the sidewalk in ...
Photograph

Ice and Coal Wagon

Date: 09 15 1926
Description: Oshkosh Pure Ice and Coal Co. horse-drawn wagon as seen from the back. Two blocks of ice are visible in the wagon. Note on back: Sept. 15, 1926-4:30 pm. Ne...

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