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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Public Library. Reverse of the cardboard backing reads: "Milwaukee Public Library and Museum, erected 1898, cost $512,000, F... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | "Rules to be observed by the pupils of public schools of Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Public Library and Museum, designed by Ferry & Clas, architects. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Milwaukee Public Library. Note below the image reads: "Milwaukee Public Library, Delivery Room." There is a vaulted ceiling with skyli... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Milwaukee Public Library. Note below the image reads: " Milwaukee Public Library, Children's Room." There are reading tables and chair... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Milwaukee Public Library, showing reading tables on the ground floor, and balconies and railings of two levels above. Large stone colu... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View down street towards the building which has a crowd of people on the sidewalk. On the right is a small line of trees and a man in the Express No. 45 ca... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee looking southwest toward the county courthouse under construction in the public square west of St. John's Cathedral. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Court of Honor, in front of the Public Library. View from below of the statue "The Victorious Charge" with four figures. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Six story building with three flag poles above the main entrance. Several people are on the sidewalk around the building and cars parked on the road. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across road toward a monument on a median in front of the Milwaukee Public Library and Museum. A portion of the dome can be seen on top of the library... |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi and students from Boniface School join the public school boycott. They're clapping their hands and appear to be chanting. |
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| Description: | A barefoot child is sitting on the sidewalk. Houses and buildings are in the background, and laundry is hanging out to dry. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Front facade of library building from across the street behind a median strip, which has a statue and a sign that reads "Keep Off the Grass". Caption reads... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | There is a dome on top of the building at the entrance. A monument is in a grassy median in the road between the building and the foreground. Caption reads... |
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| Description: | Two boys attempting to climb a wall on the facade of a building near a window. |
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| Description: | Oval-framed quarter-length portrait on a card for George Ackerman Abert, a Democratic politician active in the State Senate (1877-1878), Milwaukee city com... |
| Date: | 04 13 1961 |
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| Description: | Donald Davidson (left), Director of Public Relations for the Milwaukee Braves, talks with pitcher Lew Burdette at an Elks club dinner. |
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