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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Bridge in the downtown area crossing the Milwaukee River. City buildings reach into the background, with the farthest fading out. Many people are crossin... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge. A building on the left has a large sign for Gimbel's on its roof. Beyond the river in the background are two large s... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Part of a bridge is visible in the lower left corner. Under the bridge is a floating pier with advertisements painted on its sides. Another br... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View across water of a motorboat with four men going upstream. There is a bicycle in the motorboat. The shoreline in the background has industrial building... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of downtown Milwaukee riverbank before the First National Bank was built in 1914. Advertising painted on the sides of buildings includes B. Mock & So... |
| Date: | 05 26 1894 |
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| Description: | A rowboat full of passengers floats alongside a ferry, which travels between Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, and Rising Sun, Indiana. On the side of the ferry are s... |
| Date: | 06 07 1894 |
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| Description: | A large cave in the rock palisade along the river. An advertisement for St. Jacobs Oil is painted above the entrance to the cave. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of "Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares," a sculpture by Yevgeniy Vuchetich donated to the United Nations by the Soviet Union. The sculpture shows... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch... |
| Date: | 10 06 1911 |
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| Description: | View of Monsos Brothers Grocery & Crockery after most of the building was washed away by the flooding Black River. High, rushing water can be seen on the r... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A wall atlas of Sauk County, Wisconsin, displaying its 22 towns. On the left side are advertisements for local businesses. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | International poster featuring testimony from the builders of the Hoover Dam in their use of International trucks. The poster has two photographs of trucks... |
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| Description: | View down Water Street, with billboards advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. There is also a bridge ... |
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| Description: | View from road of two women posing standing on a bridge. Both women are wearing black skirts/dresses and capes along with elaborate hats. Behind them is th... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Part of a bridge is visible in the lower left corner. Under the bridge is a floating pier with advertisements painted on its sides. Another br... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin promotional decal with a map of the state, with many cities marked and drawings of some Wisconsin icons: cheese, cows, deer, beer, Wisconsin Dell... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Cover of a brochure celebrating a new International Harvester Manhattan branch, featuring an aerial photograph of Manhattan, including the corner of West 4... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Cover of a McCormick-Deering brochure featuring corn shellers, feed grinders, hammer and roughage mills. |
| Date: | 02 1946 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof for "rugged" International trucks, featuring a color illustration of men log driving timber down a river with an International truck bear... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A two-sided map of the state of Wisconsin. The front includes towns and major cities as well as state and county trunk highways. The back includes a smalle... |
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