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| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Courthouse and surrounding buildings. There are also two horse-drawn carriages, people on horseback, and a few pedestrians. |
| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraving showing people attempting to locate loved ones among the bodies recovered from the Newhall House fire. |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Home of William Augustus Prentiss, built in 1836 and burned in 1845. Small two-story house. Four people are standing around the house. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | People strolling on the midway and stopping to observe the booths and displays. In the background is a large building with flags. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Portion of City Hall with a flag flying from the roof. There is another building across the street, and horse-drawn carriages and people on the road. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee River near the Milwaukee settlement. People are depicted doing work in boats along the shore. Original is a pen and ink drawing, presumably made ... |
| Date: | 07 30 1899 |
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| Description: | View across pond of Syl at Soldiers Home with aunt Helen standing on a landing near a boat and a flagpole. There is a large group of people gathered around... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Letter on stationery featuring an engraving of an exterior view of the Milwaukee House showing horse-drawn vehicles and people standing on the sidewalk in ... |
| Date: | 05 28 1899 |
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| Description: | Syl standing in front of a small pond in Reservoir Park. A large group of people is gathered in the background around a tree. |
| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an engraved image showing people clinging to a windowsill on the Newhall House attempting to escape the burning building. One woman in the fo... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view down East Water Street from Wisconsin Avenue, with buildings, people, and street traffic including horse-drawn vehicles and a horse-drawn str... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Solomon Juneau house on East Michigan. There are tethered bears on either side of the front door. Two people are leaning on the fence, watch... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Side view of monument with plaque. Behind the statue is a road, trees, and the top of a building. A fire hydrant and a small group of people are on the ri... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Women and children visit soldiers at Camp Harvey. A long building with other people on a long porch is in the background. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Interior view of lobby area with several people sitting in chairs. Manuscript notations on the mount makes much of the fact that it was photographed at ni... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Two men escorting a fashionably dressed woman with a feathered boa obscuring part of her face. People are standing in the background near a train next to t... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Emil Wallber house with four people standing near the entrance. Wallber was the mayor of Milwaukee from 1884-1888. The location of the... |
| Date: | 07 03 1886 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Schlitz Palm Garden filled with finely dressed people. The Schlitz logo appears in the upper left corner. Located on N. 3rd Street, so... |
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