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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees of village. In the background is a water tower on a hill with trees. |
| Date: | 03 03 1930 |
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| Description: | Steve Schmidt house under construction in Sherman Park subdivision. The house is located at 1406 Farragut Street. |
| Date: | 03 1936 |
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| Description: | Grouping of houses in the Greendale suburb of Milwaukee, which are shown during the construction phase. |
| Date: | 07 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Propelled by good roads and lower property taxes, many Wisconsin towns became "commuter suburbs" to their larger neighbors during the 1950s and 1960s. Whi... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | A group of Boy Scouts, led by the Scout Leader, playing drums in a Fourth of July parade. They are walking down a street and a crowd of spectators is in th... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Children riding decorated tricycles and baby carriages in a fourth of July parade with adults lining the street behind them. |
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| Description: | View across road of car parked on the side of the road. In the background are brick buildings, including (from left to right) the Central Heating Plant, th... |
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| Description: | A man is sitting at the wheel of a long steamroller parked in a gravel lot with a brick building in the background. |
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| Description: | A man in a hat and overalls leans over a trench or ditch digger, looking down into the excavated area. Pipes, an automobile, and a building are in the back... |
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| Description: | Commercial buildings, roads, cars parked in lots, as seen from the snow-covered lawn of the Village Hall. |
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| Description: | A woman and child in front of brick commercial storefronts. Signs read, from left to right "Drugs Prescriptions," "Soda Grill Luncheonette" and "Greendale ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | The front entrance of the Greendale Theater with other storefronts visible. The marquee reads "Greendale Theater, Air Conditioned For Comfort, New Show Eve... |
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| Description: | Men and women walking on sidewalk in front of a brick commercial building. The Greendale Village Hall is in the background and snow is on the ground. |
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| Description: | The exterior of a brick building, most likely a recently built school. Workers are near the building planting and working the soil around the base of the b... |
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| Description: | A pile of metal drums sits in the snow next to corner of brick building. One of the drums has the words "Hello Neighbor" painted on it. Residential housing... |
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| Description: | Two children ride tricycles on sidewalk along the side of a brick building. There is a large pipe winding from the roof into one of the windows. |
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| Description: | Village Hall in the distance, as seen down Broad Street. There is an automobile parked on the left and on the right, a sign reads "Caution Speed 20 Mile Pe... |
| Date: | 06 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Henry Wallace, on right, talking to two men in front of the community center building. Henry Wallace, then the United States Secretary of Agriculture, visi... |
| 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... |
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