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| Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store. |
| Date: | 02 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Charles Loewenberg, manager of the Strand Theatre, and Aldro Wasley, photographer, wearing a Strand jacket and jodhpurs, standing on E. Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 10 07 1930 |
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| Description: | Window display at Royal Tailors, Inc., 12 E. Mifflin Street. The neon sign in the window reads: "Royal Perfect Clothes $25 To Order." |
| Date: | 10 07 1930 |
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| Description: | Royal Tailors, Inc. display window located at 12 East Mifflin Street, with neon advertising. |
| Date: | 05 26 1929 |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards the Paul E. Stark Co. building, 124 W. Mifflin Street. The view also includes the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Life Insur... |
| Date: | 01 23 1928 |
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| Description: | Schenk's Corners, with the Security State Bank, located at Atwood Avenue and Winnebago Street. On the right hand side of the view is Hausmann Fuel Company,... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Five men stand on a city street surrounded by onlookers, perhaps a parade or some other public event. Two of the men in the street are carrying photography... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | East Water Street at Wisconsin Avenue. City Hall is in the background. At the left is the Waldheim and Company Department Store of 407-411 East Water Stree... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Professor Perry G. Holden demonstrates the benefits of growing alfalfa to a group of men, women, and children standing in a crossroads in a commercial area... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street of a group of employees, all men, posing outside their cafe. The cafe advertises Kennedy Dairy Company brand ice cream, Coca-Cola produc... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 700 block of State Street. Lake Street parking ramp and University of Wisconsin Extension building are vi... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street lined with shops. Cars are sporadically parked along the curbs. There is a hotel, the Fritzstoldt tailor, soda fountain and drug stor... |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | Decorated truck driven by Leonard Greachowiak through downtown in a United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration. The beribboned pickup displays a sign that ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View across road of the central business section. The commerical buildings along the sidewalk include a printer, butcher, barber and jeweler. Above the sho... |
| Date: | 07 04 1994 |
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| Description: | The flag raising during the Fourth of July ceremony, with a group of the local Knights of Columbus on the left. In the foreground on the right is a photogr... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down center of Main Street with cobblestones. There is a railroad crossing in the foreground. Service garages are on the left and right corners. Parke... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Moseley Book Company, at 10 E. Mifflin Street. The storefront is below the offices of Central Life. Next door on the right a... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the even side of the 200 block of Atwood Avenue. Businesses and residences are John Nyberg, a tailor, at 208 1/2 Atwood Avenue, ... |
| Date: | 04 23 1954 |
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| Description: | James Roy Miller, photographer for The Capital Times, standing next to a white car advertising "Photography by Edwin Stein, 1417 University Ave." Wi... |
| Date: | 09 24 1964 |
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| Description: | Large crowd gathered at the Wisconsin State Capitol to hear Senator Barry Goldwater speak. Reporters and photographers are gathered in the foreground. A mi... |
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