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| Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Milwaukee County Zoo grounds nearing its completion. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View looking west from Lake Michigan with several steam ships and sailing vessels in harbor. There is a lighthouse to left of center, along shoreline. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| 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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| Description: | Exterior view across road towards the Blatz Brewery. There is a large tree in front of the building. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of city traffic of bumper-to-bumper cars leaving Milwaukee County Stadium after the 1957 World Series. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Workers tending the grounds of the Forest Home Cemetery using a McCormick-Deering I-12 tractor and wagon. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye views of various sections of Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | From Judge Smith Addition, 5th Ward, looking north, toward the city. Drawing is an elevated view of field and plank fence in foreground, road to the left a... |
| Date: | 04 27 1987 |
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| Description: | A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather. |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue a... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel... |
| Date: | 06 03 1963 |
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| Description: | Members of the Brown Deer beautification committee plant trees along the boulevard. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View down road of mass-produced residential housing with farm in background. |
| Date: | 06 1947 |
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| Description: | A family boarding a route #40 streetcar. A sign on the front of the car advertises midget auto racing at the State Fair grounds; the second urges people to... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across valley toward a streetcar viaduct on the Waukesha Interurban Line, near Milwaukee. Caption reads: "Street Car Bridge on Waukesha Inter... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the railroad curve near Whitefish Bay resort. Caption reads: "The Curve near Whitefish Bay Resort." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of intersection of the Janesville Plank Road and North Cape Road at Hales Corners, also showing Schubrino's Saloon. The Janesville road, some... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Intersection of Janesville Plan and North Cape Road, with telephone poles lining North Cape Road and cars parked on the side of Schunbrino's Saloon. |
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