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Milwaukee Light Guard

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Description: Illustration of the Milwaukee Light Guard depicting four men, including captain J.C. Starkweather. This is a cover from sheet music "Milwaukee Light Guard ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op...
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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee in 1853

Date: 1937
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel...
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Newhall House Menu

Date: 02 22 1860
Description: Menu for the Newhall House hotel in Milwaukee, extensively illustrated with an engraving of the hotel and prices. The Newhall House, during its day one of ...
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Military Ball Invitation

Date: 04 29 1882
Description: Printed invitation to the 2nd annual military ball of the Light Horse Squadron of Milwaukee. The invitation is printed in blue and gold and features illust...
Postcard

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...
Postcard

Here's Thinking of You! In Milwaukee

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Description: Milwaukee postcard showing a glass of beer, a pretzel, a cow and a milk maid. The card also features a short verse about Milwaukee's congeniality: "A cool ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Kaleidoscope

Date: 09 14 1970
Description: Cover of "Kaleidoscope," an underground newspaper, featuring a photograph of Native American Chief Sitting Bull, highlighted with red.
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 ...
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Bijou Opera House

Date: 1889
Description: Souvenir Booklet made for the opening night of August 19, 1889. Half of the image is the opera house, and the other half is a brief summary and descriptio...
Postcard

City Hall Square

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Description: Elevated view from the top of a building looking onto the square and down East Water Street. A fountain with a monument to Henry Bergh is in the lower cent...
Postcard

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...
Postcard

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."
Postcard

Congregational Church

Date: 1915
Description: Color postcard view from street toward the front of the church on Grand Avenue. There is a large stained glass window in the arch above the entrance. Capti...
Postcard

Milwaukee County Court House

Date: 1910
Description: Colororized view of the front of the courthouse. Bare trees surround a fountain in the front, which has the top-most part of the dome cut-off by the frame....
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Cottage Inn

Date: 1835
Description: Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a...
Postcard

Grand Avenue

Date: 1912
Description: Now called Wisconsin Avenue. Split avenue (strip of land down the center). There are several statues on plinths and/or columns in the median. Caption reads...
Postcard

Grand Avenue

Date: 1904
Description: Looking west from Washington Monument. There is a monument on the right, with the view down the street on the left. A church, two other monuments, and seve...
Postcard

Grand Avenue

Date: 1904
Description: Elevated view of avenue west of Eight Street. On the left are two churches, a few other buildings, and trees. The road is split with a strip of land that h...
Postcard

Goethe-Schiller Monument

Date: 1908
Description: Monument in Washington Park with two male figures side by side on a plinth in the center, with curved walls ending in two small columns surrounding them, w...

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