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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: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Diesel engine assembly line at Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company until 1902. |
| Date: | 11 04 1935 |
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| Description: | Worker machining a TracTracTor (crawler tractor) track roller shell with a turret lathe at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. |
| 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: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs. |
| Date: | 11 04 1935 |
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| Description: | Foundry workers forming molds on a turn-table or "merry-go-round" at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Har... |
| Date: | 12 26 1931 |
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| Description: | Grace Putnam, executive secretary of the Madison Woman's Club, in the Woman's Building, 240 W. Gilman street. |
| Date: | 03 05 1939 |
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| Description: | George Jung, a Milwaukee Road speed recorder, comparing speed tapes from locomotives with master tapes covering the same division. The scale of the tapes i... |
| Date: | 09 20 1930 |
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| Description: | View over crowd towards Philip La Follette, the son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., campaigning for governor before a large crowd of workers near the Allis ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of J. Robert Taylor at his desk talking on the phone. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A WPA program on the State Fair Grounds. The workers have dug a long trench, and the project probably concerns improved sanitary facilities for the fair, a... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Two employees of Packard Auto in front of the service department office with a parked automobile. |
| Date: | 03 09 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men inspecting gears (for noise?) in a factory room at Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 03 09 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory worker employee boring holes into engine crankcases at Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 06 25 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory workers run machines in the Diesel [Engine] Machine Shop at Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 06 25 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory workers running a diesel engine assembly line at Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 11 18 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory worker grinding an external tractor track roller shell at Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 11 18 1937 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers drill and grind valve slats into a diesel engine at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken by Don Jones. |
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