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Horse-Drawn Trolley

Date: 1890
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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Farmer's Market

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of a farmer's market with horse-drawn vehicles. One man is leading a bull down the street.
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East Water Street from Wisconsin Avenue

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view down East Water Street from Wisconsin Avenue, with buildings, people, and street traffic including horse-drawn vehicles and a horse-drawn str...
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West Water Street from Grand Avenue

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of buildings and street traffic.
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Grand Avenue Traffic

Date: 1885
Description: View looking up Grand Avenue from 9th Street toward two horse-drawn wagons and a horse-drawn streetcar on the tree-lined street. The wagon on the right is ...
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West Water Street Traffic

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of West Water Street from Grand Avenue of horse-drawn vehicles, pedestrians, buildings, storefronts and power lines.
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Layton House

Date: 1880
Description: 2504 Forest Home Avenue. This hotel was situated on what was originally a plank road between Milwaukee and Muskego. It was designed after the Federal style...
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Newhall House

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph of elevated view of Newhall House which was destroyed by fire in 1883.
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National Avenue Parade

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view looking west on W. National Avenue from about S. 6th Street, towards a parade marching down National Avenue with a crowd of people watching, ...
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Bergh Monument Fountain

Date: 1891
Description: Elevated view of fountain in front of the old City Hall, with a memorial to Henry Bergh (?-1888), founder of the American Humane Society. Several other bui...
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Telephone Building on Broadway Street

Date: 1883
Description: Horse pulling a wagon in front of the telephone building. There are many telephone poles and wires along the street.
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City Hall Square

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of old City Hall building at right center facing the camera. Electric power poles are along the street, along which horse-drawn carriages and...
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City Hall

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph; view of the earlier City Hall building, on Market Square at the corner of E. Water Street and Oneida Street. Several signs are in the image, i...
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First Baptist Church

Date: 1890
Description: At the corner of Wisconsin and Milwaukee Streets; the present site of T.A. Chapman Store. View of building from across the street. Three men stand in fro...
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Kleinsteuber Machine Shop

Date: 1880
Description: It was in this shop that Christopher Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, did much of his work on various inventions. This photograph may be as early as th...
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Melms-Schandein Residence

Date: 1876
Description: 462 Virginia Street. The buildings on the left are the old Melms Brewery located at the south side of the Menomonee Valley. About 1857 C.T. Melms organized...
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Milwaukee Club

Date: 1889
Description: Corner of 706 North Jefferson Street; from a booklet of collotype views published by the photographer. The building has a turret with a rounded roof. At th...
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Water Street

Date: 1880
Description: West Water Street seen from Grand Avenue.
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National Exchange Bank

Date: 1894
Description: Also the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company building. Large building on the corner of National Avenue, with a sign for the National Exchange Bank p...
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National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph. Looking northwest. Designed by Edward Townsend Mix, the building is said to be Wisconsin's premier example of the Victorian Gothic style of ar...

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