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Streetcars in Milwaukee

Date: 1901
Description: Elevated view of scene at the corner of Grand (Avenue?) and West Water Street, now Plankinton and Wisconsin Avenues. Several streetcars are in the streets ...
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Sixth District School No. 2, Fifth Grade Class

Date: 1901
Description: Milwaukee Public school, Sixth district School no. 2, Fifth grade class. teacher Miss H. Kather, Patrick Shaunnessy Principal. Boys: Emil Dankert, Charles ...
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Fishing on Crawfish River

Date: 1901
Description: View from shoreline of a man standing in a boat, dipping for carp on the Crawfish River. Behind him dip nets are set up on scaffolds in the river. There ar...
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Florentina and Alexander Krueger in Traditional Pomeranian Attire

Date: 1901
Description: Florentina and Alexander Krueger standing in a barn wearing traditional Pomeranian attire. Alexander is smoking his fathers pipe while holding an umbrella ...
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Horse and Cutter

Date: 1901
Description: Winter scene with Joseph Langenbach sitting in a horse-drawn cutter (sleigh) at the end of the snowy driveway. In the background is a fence and a U.S. Mail...
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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Features an illustration of a man gesturing across a large empty space (possibly water) towards a factory operating at night. The same man is looking at a...
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Anna Holt Wheeler Riding Sidesaddle

Date: 1901
Description: Anna Holt Wheeler riding sidesaddle on the horse named Dick, with her husband Arthur Dana Wheeler walking behind her. Caption reads: "Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler ...
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Ethnology Building

Date: 1901
Description: Well-dressed men and women are strolling the wet pavement at the Pan American Exposition in front of the Ethnology Building. Some people are standing on th...
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Germania Statue

Date: 1901
Description: A young man, possibly a son of George Brumder, posing with a long gun near a statue of Germania. The sculpture is mounted on an elaborate stone plinth at V...
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George and Thekla Brumder

Date: 1901
Description: In a photograph labeled "Geo and Teck" George F. Brumder (1878-1961) is sitting and smiling with his wife Thekla Wollaeger Brumder (1879-1950) on the steps...

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