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| Date: | 1923-02-11 |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | It was in this shop that Christopher Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, did much of his work on various inventions. This photograph may be as early as th... |
| Date: | 11 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Emil Andel of the American Bowling Congress demonstrates an automatic foul detector in a bowling alley. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dr. A. Rudolph Silverston's vacu-aerial flying machine, as seen from the rear. Handwritten at top: "Rear View." Caption at bottom reads: "Silverston's Milw... |
| Community: | Fox Point |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | William M. and Marian Carroll House |
| Reference Number: | 244931 |
| Community: | St. Francis |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Zierden Machine & Manufacturing Company |
| Reference Number: | 243692 |
| Newspaperman, Politician and Inventor |
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| Biography of newspaperman, a politician and typewriter inventor Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Johnson Service Company Building |
| Reference Number: | 106694 |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Sholes & Glidden typewriter developed by Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and marketed c. 1874. (Museum object #1964.31) |
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