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Water Tower

Date: 1937
Description: The recently constructed Greendale water tower.
Photograph

Greendale Theater

Date: 1939
Description: The front entrance of the Greendale Theater with other storefronts visible. The marquee reads "Greendale Theater, Air Conditioned For Comfort, New Show Eve...
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Group of Peole Walking Near Greendale VIllage Hall

Date: 
Description: Men and women walking on sidewalk in front of a brick commercial building. The Greendale Village Hall is in the background and snow is on the ground.
Photograph

Water Tower

Date: 1937
Description: View from below of underside of water tower.
Photograph

View Down Water Tower Steps

Date: 1937
Description: View down the ladder leading up to the water tower.
Postcard

Greendale, Wisconsin 1938-2013 Diamond Celebration

Date: 2013
Description: Color postcard of an illustration called "Time and Place" by Jason Van Roo. Caption reads: "Greendale, Wisconsin 1938-2013 Diamond Celebration, Wis." Text...
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Sketch of Sewage Treatment Plant

Date: 1937
Description: A planning sketch of the sewage disposal plant.
Map or Atlas

Greendale, Wisconsin

Date: 1938
Description: This map shows buildings, lots, parks, schools, pumping stations, sites reserved for churches, and water towers.
Map or Atlas

Village of Greendale, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Date: 1960
Description: This map of Greedale shows local streets, parks, schools, and churches and includes manuscript annotations in green and blue showing tracts and parcels of ...
Photograph

Woman and Child in Front of Shops

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Description: A woman and child in front of brick commercial storefronts. Signs read, from left to right "Drugs Prescriptions," "Soda Grill Luncheonette" and "Greendale ...
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Girls Riding Bicycles

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: Girls riding bicycles at a Civilian Defense Rally. The Greendale Village Hall with clock tower is visible in the background, and the street has been blocke...
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Sketch of "Floating Cover Installation"

Date: 1937
Description: A sketch of an aspect of the waterworks. Text reads "Typical PFT "Downes" Floating Cover Installation."
Photograph

Sketch of Sewage Treatment Plant

Date: 06 1937
Description: A planning sketch of the sewage treatment site. The sketch is signed "A Deimel" and dated "June 1936." The text at the bottom of the sketch reads "Sewage T...
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Reinforcing Stream Bank

Date: 
Description: Rocks placed to control the flow of Dale Creek. A house is visible in the background. This picture was likely taken as a study of the water drainage in ear...
Photograph

Henry Wallace in front of Community Center

Date: 06 17 1939
Description: Henry Wallace, on right, talking to two men in front of the community center building. Henry Wallace, then the United States Secretary of Agriculture, visi...
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Housing Project under Construction

Date: 03 1936
Description: Grouping of houses in the Greendale suburb of Milwaukee, which are shown during the construction phase.
Drawing

Proposed Development of the Fifth Cul-De-Sac

Date: 03 03 1937
Description: A pencil drawing of a proposed area of the planned community of Greendale, Wisconsin. The community was established as an objective of the Department of Ag...
Photograph

Commercial Buildings in Winter

Date: 
Description: Commercial buildings, roads, cars parked in lots, as seen from the snow-covered lawn of the Village Hall.
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Village Hall in Winter

Date: 1938
Description: Two adults looking at the Greendale Village Hall with clock tower across an expanse of snow.
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Houses and Water Tower

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated view over trees of village. In the background is a water tower on a hill with trees.

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