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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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Wisconsin's First Coupe

Date: 1905
Description: Automobile alleged to be the first coupe built in Wisconsin. The vehicle was built by Gus Wilkie of Sheboygan from the body of a carriage and the chassis f...
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Street Cleaner

Date: 1914
Description: Street cleaner cleaning a street. A man and boy stand on the opposite sidewalk watching. Another street cleaner is on the left. Perhaps in Milwaukee.
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Stagecoach

Date: 1920
Description: A man poses on the Continental Cove Express, a stagecoach pulled by two horses.
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Construction Workers

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Description: Construction workers on the job, with horse-drawn wagons in the background.
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Cart and Automobile

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Description: View of an man standing with an ox-drawn cart near a man sitting in an automobile.
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Outdoor Portrait of Two Men with a Tandem Bicycle

Date: 1896
Description: An outdoor portrait of two men with a tandem bicycle. The men stand in a yard near a front walk leading up to a porch. In back of the men is the side of a ...
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Wedding Guests

Date: 08 27 1912
Description: A well-dressed couple stand in the back of an chauffeur-driven open automobile on the drive at Black Point Estate. The woman, who is wearing a very tall ha...
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Place Card

Date: 1944
Description: Printed place card created for the fiftieth wedding anniversary celebration of Clara Seipp and Henry Bartholomay Jr. which features head and shoulders phot...
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Bicyclist on the Rustic Bridge

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Description: Elevated view of a bicyclist dressed in light-colored clothes biking over the Shorewood Hills rustic bridge. Another bicycle is parked against the railing ...
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Arville Schaleben Standing Next to Automobile

Date: 1935
Description: Arville Schaleben standing next to an automobile with a camera over his shoulder, a screwdriver in his right hand, and a cigarette in his left hand. A man ...
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Edward Alsworth Ross in Caracas

Date: 10 13 1924
Description: UW-Madison sociology professor Edward Alsworth Ross poses on horseback on an unpaved road. A building is in the distance. Caption reads: "This is for Mrs. ...

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