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| Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers on the bottling line at the Schlitz Brewery. |
| Date: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Packinghouse workers and their CIO supporters protest Armour and Company's "back-to-work" day, April 20, 1948. "The 'back to work' movement of Armour & C... |
| Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America and their families walking the picket line. "Picket Duty - Everyone's Job" Even the youngste... |
| Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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| Description: | A driver for Dairy Distributors, Inc. cooperative of Watertown, Wisconsin delivering milk to strikers' soup kitchen. "Several dairies have volunteered to... |
| Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers stocking the strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Fred Koratko, Corneli... |
| Date: | 12 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of America, relaxing after a union meeting. |
| Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Al Herold (chef), Ernie Bernie, Jimmy Glov... |
| Date: | 08 25 1967 |
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| Description: | Construction workers enjoying a beer after pouring concrete for a bridge structure. |
| Date: | 12 26 1935 |
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| Description: | Worker on an International I-30 industrial tractor used for "spotting" freight cars around the Miller Brewing Company. Two refrigerated rail cars are parke... |
| Date: | 08 30 1965 |
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| Description: | Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Administration Building. A two-story building with an sign and a symbol of a tall beer of glass flanked by two stalks of a plant on the front entrance of t... |
| Date: | 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of construction of the new building, at Sixth Street and Highland Avenue. The downtown can be seen in the background, including the Schlitz c... |
| Date: | 08 31 1958 |
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| Description: | Two men using a fork lift to load cases of beer into a truck at the Blatz brewery. The two men are Edward Klem, guiding the fork lift truck, and Frank Le B... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Two dairy workers run a milk bottling machine at Golden Guernsey Dairy. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A milkman stands inside a Golden Guernsey Dairy delivery truck loading bottles into a carrier. The truck is parked at a curb and a house is in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Harvey Schmidt sits on a stool in a barn to milk a cow by hand. |
| Date: | 03 30 1939 |
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| Description: | Harvey Schmidt stands amongst a row of cows in a barn to use a portable milking machine. |
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