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| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Women sun bathe near an express highway in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 01 02 1934 |
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| Description: | Two workmen use a McCormick-Deering I-30 industrial tractor to attach railroad cars carrying Miller High Life beer. |
| Date: | 03 17 1931 |
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| Description: | A scene at Curtiss-Wright Field in Milwaukee. Pictured are Arthur D. Gaspar, a Waukesha funeral director, and Paul Trier, the pilot of the Curtiss Thrush. ... |
| Date: | 06 15 1936 |
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| Description: | Two workers loading large steel castings into the back of an International C-15 truck outside a Wehr Steel Company building. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee rail yards. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A Chicago & Northwestern train crossing a railroad bridge. |
| Date: | 10 1983 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Road Shops, formerly the foundery, at 3301 West Canal Street. |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Docks and shanties at Jones Island, with smokestacks and cranes in the background. |
| Date: | 01 20 1926 |
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| Description: | A parked tow truck of the Schlei-Nelson Company of 3026 North Avenue. |
| Date: | 03 19 1940 |
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| Description: | View across Milwaukee River of workers of the Herman M. Hettler Lumber Company unloading lumber off a shipping boat to the Shroeder Lumber Yards and Troste... |
| Date: | 09 10 1903 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking north on the Milwaukee River from the Holton Street viaduct towards the Milwaukee lumberyards. |
| Date: | 05 11 1902 |
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| Description: | Looking up the Milwaukee River to the Humboldt Avenue bridge, with the North Avenue dam in the background. |
| Date: | 06 08 1902 |
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| Description: | Looking up the Milwaukee River to the Holton Street viaduct. In the center is the Gallun tannery. There is also a steamboat in the harbor, several lumber y... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of rows of finished tractors cover a yard outside Milwaukee Works. On the left is a water tower, and in the foreground are railroad tracks wi... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee billboard advertising a lecture by Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party-USA. The sign reads "Win the War Rally! Earl Browder,... |
| Date: | 05 07 1969 |
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| Description: | Marine gear unit ready to be shipped. This particular gear unit, a component of a Great Lakes Ore Carrier was purchased by General Motors-Electro Motive Di... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Rows of tractors lined up in the snow outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two ships at the end of the canal, several buildings, a small lumberyard, and snow. Three other ships are visible down the canal. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a building of a canal in the city, with a boat on the canal. A bridge is also visible. |
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