Date: | 1937 |
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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... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | View down the hill toward the U.S. Coast Guard Station on the left with two communications towers on the Lake Michigan shoreline. Railroad tracks are just ... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Opening ceremonies for a Work Progress Administration (WPA) exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the 800 block of South Third Street, with three large houses lining the road. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Three men on pilings posing with man in a diving suit in preparation for a dive. Onlookers are standing above on a bridge in the background. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Man in diving suit being helped out of the water by three men in a rowboat. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | John Craig, Max Gene Nohl (seated in the dive suit), Dr. Edgar End and a fourth unknown person looking in. The location is the Milwaukee County Emergency H... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | A revolutionary dive suit that solved the problems of breathing air at depth by using a mixture of helium and oxygen rather than nitrogen and oxygen. The s... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Two men talking in an auto parts store. One man is behind the counter wearing eyeglasses and holding a box, the other man is wearing a hat and leaning on t... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | A man carrying a box exits the passenger side of an International D-2 panel truck used by the Singer Sewing Machine Company. The text on the box reads: "Si... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Elevated view of construction workers placing rebar in the foundation of a house in preparation for concrete to be poured. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | View down the ladder leading up to the water tower. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | A sketch of an aspect of the waterworks. Text reads "Typical PFT "Downes" Floating Cover Installation." |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | A planning sketch of the sewage disposal plant. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | First floor of a two-story house that is in the middle of being constructed. Other duplexes and houses are visible in the background. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Large group of construction workers walking through neighborhood of houses that are in the middle of being constructed. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Men work to level the ground for foundations to be poured for homes. Exposed brick walls of partially constructed homes are on the left and right, and a di... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | A man loads a piece of equipment onto the back of an International D-40 truck owned by the Romanowski Coal Company while it is parked in a residential driv... |
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