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822 W KILBOURN AVE

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Public Safety Building
Reference Number: 111205
Property Record

MCARTHUR SQUARE, N SIDE, BTWN. 8TH & 9TH STS.

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Public Safety Building
Reference Number: 119411
Property Record

4243 W NORTH AVE

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Finney Public Library
Reference Number: 129585
Property Record

231 W MICHIGAN ST

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Public Service Building
Reference Number: 27234
Property Record

800 W WELLS ST

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM
Reference Number: 41847
Photograph

Milwaukee Public Library and Museum

Date: 1906
Description: Milwaukee Public Library and Museum, designed by Ferry & Clas, architects.
Property Record

1325 N JEFFERSON ST

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Convent Hill Public Housing
Reference Number: 111164
Photograph

Milwaukee Public Library

Date: 05 16 1902
Description: Milwaukee Public Library building (Central Library) at W. Wisconsin Avenue and N. 9th Street.
Postcard

Milwaukee Public Library and Museum

Date: 1904
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...
Photograph

Picket Line at Milwaukee City Hall

Date: 09 23 1946
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...
Photograph

Worker at Milwaukee Public Library

Date: 1958
Description: Construction worker at a conference on economic problems at the Milwaukee Public Library. The subject is Albert Pearson.
Photograph

United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
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 ...
Photograph

John J. Beggs

Date: 05 27 1921
Description: Quarter-length portrait of John J. Beggs, Milwaukee public utilities executive.
Property Record

1609 W NORTH AVE

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: West North Avenue Natatorium
Reference Number: 119884
Photograph

Milwaukee Public School Board Walk Out

Date: 01 21 1964
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...
Property Record

6205 W BURLEIGH

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Milwaukee Fire Department Engine House No. 34
Reference Number: 115581
Postcard

Public Service Building

Date: 1905
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...
Photograph

United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
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...
Property Record

2901 N 30TH ST

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Engine House 13
Reference Number: 112525
Property Record

310 W Locust St

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Milwaukee Public Library - Martin Luther King Branch
Reference Number: 240475

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