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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A car is parked on the street in front of a row of houses. Children are playing in the front yards. There is a large tree in the foreground. Men are workin... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View down row of back of houses. The backyards have gardens, and on the far left is a row of trees. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Seven children wearing coats and hats play in front of a roofed entrance of two-story house. One child has a tricycle, another is holding a doll. An automo... |
| 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: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Wildflowers next to the side yard and the front steps of a house. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Flag pole with limestone carving of women and men by Alonzo Hauser, who was appointed by the Farm Security Administration, at its base. The sculpture was b... |
| Date: | 07 05 1938 |
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| Description: | A recently planted sapling in the backyard of an empty house, with other houses and roads visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A milkman stands inside a Golden Guernsey Dairy delivery truck loading bottles into a carrier. The truck is parked at a curb and a house is in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from lawn of curved residential street lined with recently constructed housing and lampposts. A car sits in a driveway of a house on the left, and fur... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Recently constructed residential housing as viewed from a hill. A fence is in the foreground. Porches, backyards, and small garages lead down to the Villag... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View up residential street with newly constructed houses, young trees and lampposts. Men in suits and hats walk along the sidewalk. A speed limit sign is o... |
| Date: | 09 1939 |
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| Description: | View from road of a group of seven children playing in front of a house and on the porch, while a woman holding a bag of groceries walks past on the sidewa... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A front view of the Layton House, which was originally an inn. Signs on the building indicate that at the time of the photograph it was the business of Car... |
| Date: | 11 1900 |
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| Description: | Syl standing in front of a octagonal-shaped Gordon Cottage. The edge of the roof has crenelations along it, and a brick chimney is in the middle the roof. ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | An exterior view of Octagon Cottage. The edge of the roof has crenelations along it, and a brick chimney is in the middle the roof. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | An exterior view of the Wisconsin (formerly the Germania) Club. |
| Date: | 10 31 1987 |
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| Description: | Amanda Basile of Milwaukee's Northwest side dressed as the Milwaukee Journal Green Sheet for Halloween. She made the costume with her mother Penny Chapman ... |
| Date: | 09 17 1909 |
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| Description: | President Taft walking along a path at the Soldier's Home where he addressed veterans. Several others accompany the President, including Mayor David S. Ros... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street of home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker, located at 645 Franklin Place, also known as "The Lion House... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | A man films a family as they sit at a picnic table and eat lunch at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. |
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