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| Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wagons hauling coal from the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company holding up street car traffic on a busy Milwaukee street. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an intersection in Milwaukee, looking up Broadway. There is a sign for "Dentist" on the left. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Milwaukee, down East Street from Kirby House. |
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| Description: | View up Broadway from Huron Street, with Charles Stein and Company on the left. |
| Date: | 05 11 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Boston Store department building at W. Wisconsin Avenue and N. 4th Street. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of factory with lake and ships in the background. Trains, people, horses, and carriages, with a multitude of smokestacks in foreground. The f... |
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| Description: | Southside Brewery, formerly the Melm's Brewery. A bridge, a boat, a river, several small buildings, and horse-drawn vehicles are in the foreground. Caption... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Looking southeast from Clybourn and Fifteenth Streets. An open dirt area is in the foreground, with lumber lying near water on the left, and industrial bui... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over rooftops looking towards Lake Michigan shoreline. Seaman's Furniture and Rooms building is surrounded by other commercial buildings. The... |
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| Description: | View across road towards a building with a sign on the building that reads: "G. Deising, Horseshoer". A number of horses are standing on the snowy road nea... |
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| Description: | Street and sidewalk outside of the Wisconsin National Bank. Men, women, and children are walking on sidewalks, and crossing in front of streetcars. Horse-d... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the street and construction site outside of the Plankinton House hotel and various storefronts. Along the street and sidewalks are horse-d... |
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| Description: | Billhead of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "jobbers in hardware, iron & cutlery, bicycles, sporting goods etc.," with a three... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the building at the corner of N. 12th St. and W. St. Paul Avenue that housed Badger State Shoe Co. and Saveland Manufacturing Co. Two hors... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Street view of the north side of State Street, west of 6th Street. The second frame house from the right was once occupied as an office by Victor L. Berger... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of a young man with two young women chatting on Wisconsin Street. The scene is near the Grand Avenue bridge which appears in the background. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | A horse-drawn cart, marked B.C. Horsch, is waiting near Dr. W.H. Perrigo's veterinary and dental business in the S. Sixth Street neighborhood in Milwaukee.... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A view of the south (W. Wells Street) facade of Cream City Brewing Company's Triangle Bar. The two-story building features decorative brickwork. There is a... |
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