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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
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| Description: | A car advertisement for a 1966 Chevelle on a billboard in a small unidentified Appalachian town. |
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| Description: | A billboard advertising the opening of a particular McDonald's restaurant. Express highways promoted the emergence of large signs that could be read at a d... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Rial Herreman stands beside a horse-drawn wagon/float, decorated with fresh flowers, advertising the Menomonee Drug Company. This may have been part of a l... |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Department of Agriculture truck with a sign that reads "Safety With Explosives." The truck and workers were part of a crew that blew tree stump... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A small dog stands beside a large statue (appears to be carved out of wood) advertising Pompy Cigars, outside of a drugstore. |
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| Description: | Poster for "Wisconsin Stage Lines Hutchins, Howe & Co. Arrangements for the Season, From Milwaukee to Galena Daily" |
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| Description: | A tea party on an airplane, a publicity stunt conceived by Harry Bruno to promote his Cleveland-area airline, Aeromarine Airlines. By taking local reporter... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | In order to undertake a trans-Atlantic flight to Norway, Clyde Allen Lee sought financial support from the local Oshkosh clothing company. The sign painted... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Advertising card from an exhibition of the Herring-Curtiss "Golden Flyer" in which Glenn Curtiss had won the first Gordon Bennett trophy at Rheims. The exh... |
| Date: | 09 10 1930 |
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| Description: | A truck with sign advertising the movie, "Africa Speaks" is parked in front of the Kaybee Store, next to the Capitol Theatre, 209 State Street where the mo... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The intersection of Port Washington Road and Silver Spring Drive near Milwaukee. Even if one did not know that this was the intersection of a major north-s... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of people standing in front of a Soo Line freight car that was used by the railroad to promote hog transportation. This photograph was donated to the... |
| Date: | 06 10 1906 |
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| Description: | View of car #466, which was then one of Milwaukee's newest streetcars. The car was put in service by TMERL about 1905 and was rebuilt as a duplex car in 1... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street of Central House, with advertisements on the side of the building for Red Crown Gasoline. The Order of the Gideons was founded he... |
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| Description: | Photograph of N.L. Dahl in front of a horse-drawn hearse. Photograph is mounted on an advertising card reading: "For Coffins, Caskets, and Trimmings at rea... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Front exterior view of Joe's Liquor Store at 702 West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | The approach to the Scott Street Bridge in Wausau, with the Wausau Cab Co. building and a large sign advertising the First American Bank, a "tower of stren... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | The Smith M. Jacobs Flour and Feed Store (left) and residence (right), 301 and 303 Monroe Street. The address renumbered within the next five years to 1701... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | 1904 Exhibit of the Maryland Association for the Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis, in a railway coach. Photograph taken in Milwaukee. |
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