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National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
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Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Main entrance and east facade. This was the third of seven institutions built throughout the country in the decades following the Civil War. By 1888, some 2,200 disabled veterans were housed at the Milwaukee facility.
1916
Taylor, J. Robert
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J. Robert Taylor and Family on Porch
Family posed on the front porch of a home. A wooden sidewalk appears in the foreground of the photograph. J. Robert Taylor appears at the far left of the image.
Soldiers on Parade
A group of soldiers on horseback in a parade. The road is lined with people.
J. Robert and Alma Taylor
J. Robert Taylor and his wife, Alma Reinhardt Taylor, photographed in the front yard of a home with three young girls. The youngest girl is holding the handle of a two-wheeled toy wagon.
West Allis Works
Aerial view of the West Allis Works, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, and surrounding neighborhoods.
J. Robert Taylor on Motorcycle
1911
Front view of the photographer J. Robert Taylor on his motorcycle.
