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Map of the Village of Fox Point : Showing Present and Proposed Streets, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Date: 1965
Description: This map is indexed for public buildings and includes a numbered key on the lower left side. The streets are labeled and Lake Michigan is labeled on the fa...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Milwaukee and Vicinity

Date: 1901
Description: This map shows public schools, engine houses, railroads, street railways, city wards, parks, block numbers, and Lake Michigan. Also included are indexes, t...
Photograph

Quaker Oats Barn

Date: 10 08 1945
Description: A barn on the Quaker Oats farm on 4202 Monona Drive. A sign above the barn door reads: "Branch Warehouse of William Le[?] Warehouses, Public Bonded Warehou...
Photograph

Car Parked near Curb

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Description: View across road of car parked on the side of the road. In the background are brick buildings, including (from left to right) the Central Heating Plant, th...
Photograph

Henry Wallace in front of Community Center

Date: 06 17 1939
Description: Henry Wallace, on right, talking to two men in front of the community center building. Henry Wallace, then the United States Secretary of Agriculture, visi...
Photograph

Rat Extermination

Date: 09 30 1947
Description: James Capacio and John H. Endres, assistant to L.B. Kelly of the Solvit Chemical Company, distributing poison bread at the Shorewood dump in a rat extermin...
Photograph

Rat Extermination

Date: 09 30 1947
Description: James L. Clarke, city health inspector, placing a warning sign on a fence at the Shorewood dump after workers distributed poison bread bait in the dump.
Photograph

Rear-Engine Drive Bus

Date: 1973
Description: Color photograph of four children holding books and standing beside a gravel road in front of a suburban residence. An International rear-engine drive scho...
Photograph

Children Exiting "Communty Building"

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Description: A group of children exiting the brick Community Building. Two sculptures flank the sign above the entrance. There is a thick layer of snow on the ground an...
Photograph

A.J. Taft, Maple Bluff Police Marshal

Date: 12 13 1948
Description: The street directory for Maple Bluff was delivered by Marshall A.J. Taft around the Christmas season. The contents of the directory reveal the growth of Ma...
Photograph

Shorewood Hills-Blackhawk Country Club Meeting

Date: 02 23 1960
Description: Once a year, members of the Shorewood Hills village board and members of the Blackhawk Country Club board of directors get together for a social evening to...
Photograph

TD-18A Crawler Tractor — Land Clearing

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man driving a TD-18 crawler tractor. Subject: "TD-18A — Land Clearing." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Joh...
Photograph

Maple Bluff Fire Department Honored

Date: 01 14 1960
Description: Madison Fire Chief Edward Page, center, presents a plaque from the International Fire Chiefs Association to Maple Bluff's volunteer fire department for ach...

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