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| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Milwaukee Public Library and Museum |
| Reference Number: | 16279 |
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| Description: | View of natural history objects at Milwaukee Public Museum, including skeletons, stuffed birds and fish. There are two cuspidors on the floor in front of e... |
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| Description: | Tables are set up at a City Hall basement lobby as a venue for public access to the polio vaccine. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Front facade of building from across the street behind a median strip, which has a statue surrounded by a small fence. Caption reads: "Public Library & Mus... |
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| Description: | Man walking into the main entrance of the telephone company. |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of an exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum. The exhibit features dinosaur bones and a preserved fish. Text at right: "Milwaukee and Vici... |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of stuffed kangaroo, bear, fox, giraffe, llama, and ram behind a glass enclosure at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Text at right: "Milwaukee... |
| Date: | 09 23 1946 |
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| Description: | Public Workers Strike - Milwaukee members of the United Public Workers, tiring of a series of stalls on their legitimate wage demands, take to the street a... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Construction worker at a conference on economic problems at the Milwaukee Public Library. The subject is Albert Pearson. |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | Close-up of two participants, a man and a boy, in a United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration. Both are looking at the photographer and the boy carries a ... |
| Date: | 05 27 1921 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of John J. Beggs, Milwaukee public utilities executive. |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | West North Avenue Natatorium |
| Reference Number: | 119884 |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View across Grand Avenue of the Milwaukee Public Library. To the left, the base of the Midsummer Festival Monument can be seen, and the George Washington m... |
| Date: | 01 21 1964 |
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| Description: | Lloyd Barbee, NAACP state president, walking out of a Milwaukee Public School Board meeting when Chairman Harold W. Story refused to allow the participatio... |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Milwaukee Fire Department Engine House No. 34 |
| Reference Number: | 115581 |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view across street towards the building on a corner. Flags are on the roof on either end. A trolley is coming in from the right, and a gr... |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagon in a United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration through downtown. The horse bears signs that read "1946 One Horse Pay!" and "1846 One Hor... |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Engine House 13 |
| Reference Number: | 112525 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
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| Reference Number: | 111788 |
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