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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Street cars and busy pedestrian traffic mingle in this view of the 200 West Water Street block in downtown Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street towards the high school. A date stone above a second floor window reads: "Erected A.D. 1887." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the International Harvester building, as seen from the northwest. Lake Michigan is in the background. |
| Date: | March 16 1939 |
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| Description: | Fort Atkinson street corner showing, left to r.ight, a drug store, photography studio, C.B. Hinterschied 5 cent-$1.00 store, The Green Hat Lunches and Hopk... |
| Date: | October 14 1946 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Company construction site at rear of Park Hotel taken from southwest showing rear of the hotel and the 115 West Main Street building wi... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Children boarding an International A-3(?) school bus as the driver stands by. The bus served the Fieldston-Riverdale apartments in New York. |
| Date: | October 26 1928 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering No. 8 harvester-thresher (combine) in a factory yard. |
| Date: | August 01 1927 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering No. 8 harvester-thresher (combine) in a factory yard. |
| Date: | October 26 1928 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering no. 8 harvester-thresher (combine) in a factory yard. Original caption reads: "View of the No. 8 harvester-thresher as it is still curren... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The square, four-story brick Chippewa Shoe Company building, located at the intersection of Bay Street and River Street looking North. There is a fire esca... |
| Date: | December 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the roof of the Park Hotel. Main Street businesses seen include, from the left: Western Union Telegraph Company at 21 West Main Street,... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | The G.A.R. Memorial Hall on Monona Avenue. It was later demolished to make way for a parking lot. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | The front entrance of the G.A.R. Memorial Hall on Monona Avenue. The building was later demolished to make way for a parking lot. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | A front detail of the G.A.R. Memorial Hall on Monona Avenue. The building was later demolished to make way for a parking lot. |
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| Description: | The Kunzelmann-Esser Furniture Co. building at S. 9th and W. Mitchell Streets. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Former home of the Milwaukee Journal newspaper, at the corner of Michigan and Milwaukee Streets. A fire escape goes up the middle of the building on... |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Furrier manufacturing building. Nearby is a gas station promoting "Standard Oil Products". A Coca-Cola sign is near the entrance to the sta... |
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| Description: | Smoke coming from two rows of smokestacks on the top of a factory. |
| Date: | February 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior side view of Dane Co. Home For The Aged, showing porches and a dangerous fire escape. The newspaper headline calls the building a "fire trap." |
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