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Telegraph Operator

Date: 09 27 1956
Description: Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years.
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Self-Service Supermarket

Date: 1953
Description: A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...
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Tree Placement

Date: 06 03 1963
Description: Members of the Brown Deer beautification committee plant trees along the boulevard.
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WHA Radio Exhibit In Milwaukee

Date: 06 21 1922
Description: Exhibit of WHA and the University of Wisconsin Extension Division at a radio show in an auditorium.
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Card Game

Date: 08 22 1963
Description: Group plays cards underneath the shady trees in Mitchell park.
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Reading Circle

Date: 08 06 1963
Description: A mother reads stories on her front steps to children from around the block.
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Three's Cake

Date: 07 18 1963
Description: Father, mother and daughter all celebrate their special birthday with three candles on one cake.
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Swearing Allegiance

Date: 05 02 1963
Description: During part of a ceremony, citizens raise their right hands and swear allegiance to the United States in the federal building to receive citizenship certif...
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Bazaar Tree

Date: 04 03 1963
Description: Women replenishes handkerchiefs plucked from her wire tree at bazaar sale.
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Students with a Skeleton

Date: 09 10 1963
Description: Three freshman students inspect a skeleton at the Marquette University medical school.
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Dr. Joseph Schneider, Famous Eye Surgeon

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Description: Dr. Joseph Schneider performs surgery on the eye of a man laying on a gurney, with assistance from a nun nurse and another man.
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Maestro Leads the Orchestra

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Description: Members of the orchestra look closely at the conductor as he leads them in the performance of a piece of music.
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A Plethora of Golf Balls

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Description: A woman dressed to play golf smiles as a bucket of golf balls is spilled at her feet. This is one of several demonstrations of strobe light functions at F...
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Public Swimming Park

Date: 1930
Description: Sunbathers relax on the piers at the swimming park on the Milwaukee River.
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Walking in the Rain

Date: 1957
Description: A woman in business attire walking with an open umbrella on a rainy day in downtown Milwaukee. To her left is the Civil War monument, "The Victorious Charg...
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Pneumatic Tube System

Date: 1890
Description: A worker stands next to a pneumatic tube communication system used at the Milwaukee Electric, Railway, and Light Company.
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Family at Home

Date: 1955
Description: A mother posing with her seven children in the living room of their home.
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Alice in Dairyland, Virgina Ruth Peterson

Date: 06 30 1950
Description: The 1950 Alice in Dairyland, Virgina Ruth Peterson, posed sitting on a fence after she was chosen for the title from a field of 18 in the final judging at ...
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Alice in Dairyland, Barbara Brown

Date: 1955
Description: Alice in Dairyland for 1955, Barbara Brown, milking a cow by hand.

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