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Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
Date: | 07 1959 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | Factory worker tightening bolts on a Farmall tractor on the assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works. |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | Factory workers on the assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works. The men are working on Farmall tractors. |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of a man on a Farmall Super A tractor following a curving line of furrows in a field with a cultivator. |
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Description: | Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter. |
Date: | 10 06 1946 |
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Description: | Branch managers tour Melrose Park Works. |
Date: | 06 09 1954 |
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Description: | McCarthy-Army hearings. Left to right: G. David Schine, Joseph R. McCarthy, and Roy Cohn. |
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Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
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Description: | View outside John Royal's office door. There are milk bottles and newspapers piled at the door and on it hangs a sign that reads "Out As Usual". |
Date: | 1957 |
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Description: | UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) delegates at 1957 convention with Herbert Hill. From left to right are Ollie Webb, Richard Miller, Charles Ha... |
Date: | 1951 |
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Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times". |
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Description: | Portrait of Homer Bigart with elderly couple. Bigart was an award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times". |
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Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls. |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh... |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Orpheum Theatre usher, Rolland W. Hamelin, who had recently received an appointment to West Point. 216 State Street. |
Date: | 02 20 1954 |
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Description: | Zoo director George Speidel and members of the Milwaukee County Zoological society talking over plans for the new zoo while looking at a tentative model fo... |
Date: | 1970 |
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Description: | Historic home on University Avenue being demolished. The home was replaced by Burger King, a fast-food, drive-in restaurant. |
Date: | 09 21 1949 |
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Description: | Three-quarter rear view from left of a man driving an IHC Farmall Cub with mower in Joe Spence's apple orchard. |
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