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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view. As part of Boy Scout Day at the Wisconsin State Fair, a contingent of scout flag bearers marches over the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge over the M... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Docks and shanties at Jones Island, with smokestacks and cranes in the background. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Little Manitou Falls on the Black River. Referred to as the "upper falls" in the park. A person is sitting on the rocks on top of the falls. This waterfall... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of rivers, with Lake Michigan in upper right, train yards, and highway in lower left. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a tugboat pulling a lake steamer on the Milwaukee River under an open drawbridge near the Electric Company. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A man in the distance is sitting in a field, with a covered bridge behind him spanning a river. Trees are at each end of the bridge, and a fence runs along... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Jones Island, with some houses near the water and an industrial area across the river. On the right are a number of railroad tracks next t... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | From Jones Island, looking across to a manufacturing area with cranes and large piles of coal or coke? In the lower foreground is a bare hill, with old pil... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of bay shoreline, with dwellings along the bank. A few boats are in the river. In the background is a factory with a smokestack and railroad ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a boat owned by Julius Dettloff docked along the edge of a river. The boat was powered by an International PD-40 power unit; in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | This map shows lakes, rivers, roads, trails, lookout towers, and railroads. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Cover of a McCormick-Deering brochure featuring corn shellers, feed grinders, hammer and roughage mills. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | This map shows "regional designation problem areas" and "nature of problem or solution." The left margin has a key showing the problem areas. The right mar... |
| Date: | 05 01 1938 |
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| Description: | This map shows the locations of Wisconsin Conservation Department forest protection districts and cooperative areas, state forests, national forests, India... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View across the Kinnickinnic River of the Pabst brewery grain elevator. A Schlitz building, possibly one of their grain elevators, stands behind the Pabst ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Map shows roads, townships and sections, railroads, water, and schools. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Color coded map in pink, yellow, blue, and brown of Milwaukee County State and County trunk highways. The map includes a legend of symbols: "STEAM RAIL ROA... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The map includes text, illustrations, a railroad fare table (season 1938), a Directory of resorts and hotels, and a regional map on the back. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view from shoreline of a stone bridge lined with lampposts. Dwellings and commercial buildings are on the far side. An elevated railroad... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | This map shows plat of town, land ownership by name, city limits, section boundaries, wards, local roads, railroads, parks, fairgrounds, cemeteries, locati... |
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