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Kleinstueber Machine Shop

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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...
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The Grill Room

Date: 05 08 1964
Description: A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business.
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Back Porch Laundry Room

Date: 10 13 1963
Description: A housewife showing off her newly-installed laundry room.
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Newborn

Date: 03 18 1963
Description: Four generations are represented in this portrait of a newborn baby with his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
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Mitchell Weather Watching

Date: 12 29 1987
Description: Bored travelers at General Mitchell International Airport, apparently taking their cue from a droopy travel poster advertising vacations in the sunny Carib...
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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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Passing the Time

Date: 11 1976
Description: Paula Fails and her young niece looking out of an ornate window in a building.
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Woman Writing at Desk

Date: 05 03 1944
Description: Woman sitting at a writing desk at Estella's. She is facing a bright window which has a window seat.
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Two Women with Potted Flowers

Date: 11 26 1944
Description: Two women in an alcove filled with potted flowers and plants. The older woman is sitting and the other woman, wearing a fur coat, is standing behind her.
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May Day Rally

Date: 05 01 1938
Description: May Day rally with a crowd of Union members on the steps of a large stone building. Banners read "United Labor 51st May Day: 1886-1937" "German-American W...
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"The Milwaukee Leader" Newspaper

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Description: A large group portrait of people posing in front of "The Milwaukee Leader" newspaper established in December of 1911 by Victor L. Berger. He can be seen te...
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Milwaukee Women's Suffrage Office

Date: 06 1912
Description: Two women seated at desks with typewriters in an office. A calendar on the wall indicates it is June 1912. Another poster advertises speakers in support of...
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Vel Phillips Speaking with Arthur Goldberg

Date: 04 08 1961
Description: Vel Phillips stands while speaking with Arthur Goldberg, former Secretary of Labor and, at the time of the photograph, Supreme Court Justice. Another man c...
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Milwaukee Home for Aged Lutherans Piano Player

Date: 1967
Description: Miss Lydia Henie, 76 years old, playing the piano in the devotional room of the Home for Aged Lutherans, 7500 West North Avenue.
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522 First Avenue

Date: 1908
Description: View from the street of three people standing in front of a small house. There is a small Oeil-de-boeuf window in the upper story. The windows have shutter...
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Bride and Groom Posing in front of a Window

Date: 01 25 1958
Description: Mary (Kustermann) Esser (b. 1934) and J. Thomas Esser (b. 1934) stand together looking out a window. She is wearing a white satin princess-style gown with ...
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Vel Phillips in Common Council

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Description: Vel Phillips in the Milwaukee Common Council chamber. Also pictured are Arthur Rynders from the Waterworks Department, Lloyd D. Knapp from the Public Works...
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Behnke's Grocery

Date: 1960
Description: William Behnke selling out after 60 years as the neighborhood grocer at North Avenue and 29th Street. There are four people behind the counter, and custome...
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Vel Phillips in Common Council

Date: 1971
Description: Vel Phillips sitting at her desk in the Milwaukee Common Council chamber. Other council members are sitting at their desks around her.
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Vel Phillips in Milwaukee Common Council

Date: 1971
Description: View across room towards Vel Phillips sitting at a table in the Milwaukee Common Council chambers with a group of unidentified men. There are papers on the...

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