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Drugstore/Stationery Store/Photo Studio

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Description: View across an unpaved street of a building with three storefronts. Signs on the taller building on the right read "Drugstore," "Books/Stationery," and "Ph...
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Children Playing With Guns

Date: 03 30 1959
Description: Two girls with their hands up being 'pretend' robbed by ten little boys with cap-guns. They are between two closely spaced homes.
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Wisconsin Telephone Co. Addition

Date: 12 26 1930
Description: Rear addition to Wisconsin Telephone Co., 17 S. Fairchild Street. Part of the Loraine Hotel is on the left.
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McCormick Harvester Machine Co. Dealership

Date: 1900
Description: View from street of the McCormick Harvester Machine Co. dealership building. There is an alley on the right.
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W.R.B. Smyth, Dealership, McCormick Harvester Machine Co.

Date: 1900
Description: View from street of the W.R.B. Smyth dealership building.
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H.R. Thurber, Dealership, McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.

Date: 1900
Description: View from street of the H.R. Thurber dealership. There is an alley on the left. The sign above the door on the left reads: "H.R. Thurber, Gen." and the sig...
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Grimm Book Bindery

Date: 02 28 1928
Description: Grimm Book Bindery at 454 W. Gilman Street.
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Rear of Stephan & Thorsen Store

Date: 11 10 1947
Description: Rear view of Stephan & Thorsen Men's Clothing Store, 214 State Street.
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Holstein-Friesian Building

Date: 02 18 1931
Description: Holstein-Friesian Association of America building, 448 W. Washington Avenue. There is a truck parked on the terrace, and a man is on a ladder in front of t...
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Truck with Tow Cable

Date: 03 20 1929
Description: View down alley towards a truck with a tow cable mounted on it. A large section of machinery is on a trailer attached to the truck, and the trailer is half...
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K & O Transfer Truck

Date: 12 16 1954
Description: Four men standing in front of a K & O Transfer truck pulling a long flatbed at an unknown location. They are right behind a building and down a back alley ...
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Pyramid Realty

Date: 1973
Description: View across East Washington towards Pyramid Realty. A car is parked outside of the building. To the right is a small parking lot, and to the left is an all...
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S.L. Parke Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards the S.L. Parke Building. The ground floor contains two businesses: Nedrebo's Formal Wear and Tuxedo Rental on the left, wi...
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Oriental Specialties

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards Oriental Specialties. The facade is decorated with marble. Cars are parked on both sides of the street. To the left of Ori...
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Mae Woldenberg Building, Left Side

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards the left section of the Mae Woldenberg Building. The upper floors are apartments, and on the ground floor is the Blumen Ce...
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Tobacco Bar, W.N. Connay Building, and Leonard Eberhardt Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards three buildings. On the far left is theTobacco Bar. In the middle is the W.N. Connay Building, which contains The Bottom H...
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House on West Gilman Street

Date: 1973
Description: View across West Gilman Street towards a three-story house with a porch. A car is parked in the driveway on the left. The sign on the side of the house abo...
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Bigsby & Kruthers

Date: 1973
Description: View across West Gilman Street, on the corner of State Street, towards Bigsby & Kruthers. Clothing is on display in the windows, as well as a sign advertis...
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Uptown Liquor and Great Big Pictures

Date: 1973
Description: View across West Gilman Street towards Uptown Liquor Store, a three-story brick building, which is at the corner of University Avenue on the left. On the r...
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Fire in Milwaukee

Date: 1930
Description: A fireman is climbing a tall ladder supported on the rear wall of a two-story brick building. There are other firemen on the ground and two men observing. ...

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