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Long shot taken from a higher platform showing the Miller Brewery building complex in the distance. White steam is released from a building with a painted Miller logo on its exterior wall. The brewery's giant logo in red sits atop another tall, windowless building in the background. Rows of trucks and an enclosed parking lot are in the foreground.

Miller Brewery

Miller Brewing has been an industrial presence in Milwaukee since 1855. Its facilities are pictured here in 1978.

Source:
From the Harold Mayer Collection, American Geographical Society Library. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
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Industrial Landscapes
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Buildings, Manufacturing Facilities
Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers National League baseball team.

Miller Park

Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers National League baseball team.

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From the Library of Congress Carol M. Highsmith Archive
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Miller Park
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Buildings, Sports and Recreation
Groups of people barbecue and sit on tailgate chairs between lines of cars parked outdoors on the image's left and right. Tall and lush green trees appear in the far background. Above is the blue sky.

Miller Park Tailgating

Groups of people barbecue and relax behind their cars before a Brewers game in 2016.

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From Flickr. Photograph by Julie Corsi. CC BY 2.0.
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Tailgating
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Groups, Outdoor, People, Sports and Recreation
Group photo of dozens of Milwaukee Admirals members in uniforms posing at a hockey rink. Some people in the front lie on the ice surface flanking a trophy. Two people, one in a suit, and one in a sweater pose, on the right. They all smile while pointing their index fingers. In the background are spectators in the blue-colored seating area.

Milwaukee Admirals

The 2004 Milwaukee Admirals celebrate after winning the Calder Cup.

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From Flickr. Photograph by John Kasko/AHL. CC BY 2.0.
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Milwaukee Admirals
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Groups, Indoor, People, Sports and Recreation
Image of a long alley with bumpy paving slabs. Houses along with power poles appear on the left and right sides of the road. A light-colored car is parked by the left edge of the alley, and a darker-colored one is placed on the opposite side.

Milwaukee Alley

A 1970 photograph of an alley near Park Place and Bartlett Avenue showing parked automobiles and utility wires.

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Photograph by Alan Magayne-Roshak. Copyright 2013. Reprinted with permission.
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Alleys
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Streetscapes
A bunch of passengers inside the Milwaukee and Whitefish Bay Dummy Line. The locomotive is on the furthest right. Three people stand on the ground next to the train and pose for this sepia-coloured photograph. Railways track lines span the surface next to the Dummy Line close to the foreground

Milwaukee and Whitefish Bay Dummy Line

Passengers climb aboard the Milwaukee and Whitefish Bay Dummy Line at the end of the nineteenth century.

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From the Clarence Sheldon Collection of the Shorewood Historical Society. Reprinted with permission.
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Getting Around
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Transportation
Long shot of the Milwaukee Area Technical College downtown campus on a street corner. Bricks compose the multiple-story building. The structure has repeating windows across its walls. Trees grow next to the campus. The roadway below is empty. Above is a clear blue sky.

Milwaukee Area Technical College Downtown Campus

Milwaukee Area Technical College's first dedicated building opened in 1920. Pictured here in 2012, it still serves as the school's main campus and headquarters today.

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From the Wikimedia Commons. Photograph by username Royalbroil. CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Milwaukee Area Technical College
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Buildings, Educational Facilities
High-angle shot showing the construction of the Milwaukee Arena. Grandstands appear from inside the unfinished building. A truck drives out of the building. Planks and girders lay on the ground. Milwaukee's downtown buildings are in the background, including the County Courthouse on the right and the Wisconsin Gas Building on the left.

Milwaukee Arena Construction

The construction of the Milwaukee Arena, completed in 1950, was one of the first major initiatives for which the Greater Milwaukee Committee advocated. It is now known as the UWM Panther Arena.

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From the Historic Photo Collection of the Milwaukee Public Library. Reprinted with permission.
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Greater Milwaukee Committee
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Buildings, Cityscapes, Theaters, Arenas, and Museums
Bird's eye view of the Milwaukee Art Museum and its surrounding area. The white-colored Quadracci Pavilion is highlight on th eleft with its iconic wing-shaped sunscreen in the open position. A long, low, white hallway attaches to the older structure on the right. A pedestrian area borders the Lake Michigan on the foreground. Other buildings compose the background of the picture.

Milwaukee Art Museum

Photograph featuring an aerial view of the Milwaukee Art Museum with its famous wings open.

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From the Library of Congress Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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Milwaukee Art Museum
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Buildings, Cityscapes, Theaters, Arenas, and Museums
Long shot of a parking entrance under the white-colored Quadracci Pavilion features the Windhover halls and the Burke Brise Soleil in the background. Green lawns on the sloping terrain are on the left and right sides of the driveway in the foreground. Some tall buildings are visible in the far distance on the left

Milwaukee Art Museum

Photograph featuring a profile view of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

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From the Library of Congress Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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Milwaukee Art Museum
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Buildings, Theaters, Arenas, and Museums
Long shot of the atrium of the Milwaukee Art Museum. A flood of sunshine emanates from the skylights above and the iconic window structure standing in the background, hitting the atrium's floor.

Milwaukee Art Museum Atrium

Photograph featuring the atrium of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

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From the Library of Congress Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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Milwaukee Art Museum
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Long shot of the Milwaukee War Memorial sitting in the distance against the sky. The building's upper structure appears prominently from afar. An expansive green lawn spans the foreground.

Milwaukee Art Museum War Memorial Center

Photograph featuring the Milwaukee War Memorial, dedicated in 1957 and once home of the Milwaukee Art Center.

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From the Library of Congress Balthazar Korab Archive.
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Milwaukee Art Museum
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Buildings, Theaters, Arenas, and Museums
A sepia-colored long shot of groups of people gathering around the Milwaukee Astronomical Society Observatory buildings set on a field. A roll-away shed in a trapezoid shape sits on the farthest left. A large telescope stands next to it. Three people appear near the shed and telescope. Another observatory unit capped with a dome is placed on the right. Some people gather next to the unit's entrance. At the image's center, in a space between the telescope and the dome, are other groups interacting. Some sit on chairs in the center background.

Milwaukee Astronomical Society Observatory

Members gather for the 1938 dedication of the Milwaukee Astronomical Society in New Berlin.

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Photograph courtesy of the Milwaukee Astronomical Society. Reprinted with permission.
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New Berlin
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Long shot of the Milwaukee Ballet Company Building standing on a street corner. The two-story structure features display windows on the ground floor and repeating rectangular windows on the second floor. Cars are parked next to the building, on the right.

Milwaukee Ballet Company Building

The Milwaukee Ballet Company has been headquartered at 128 N. Jackson Street since the 1980s. This building was historically owned by the Schlitz Brewing Company. A new dance center in the city's Third Ward is set to open in 2019.

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From the Wikimedia Commons. Photograph by username sulfur. CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Milwaukee Ballet Company
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Buildings
A map shows existing bicycle facilities in the City of Milwaukee. It illustrates bike lanes with green lines, bike routes in blue lines, off-street paths and trails in orange lines, and orange dotted lines for on-street trail connections.

Milwaukee Bicycling Facilities

This map from 2010 illustrates the existing facilities available to area cyclists within the City of Milwaukee.

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From the American Geographical Society Library Milwaukee Municipal Research Library Collection. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
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Bicycling
Grayscale full shot of Anton Chmurski demonstrating a boxing motion with eyes staring directly into the lens. For this studio portrait, he wears a sleeveless shirt, short pants on top of tight-fitting pants, socks, and shoes.

Milwaukee Boxer

Portrait of Milwaukee boxer Anton Chmurski, known as "Kid Moore," taken in 1920.

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From the Roman B. Kwaniewski Photographs Collection, Archives. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
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Boxing
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Individuals, People
A panoramic view highlighting the white-colored Milwaukee Breakwater lighthouse, which stands on a pier above the light blue lake. The sky above shares the same color tone with the water surface. A tall red pole-like structure appears on the pier way behind the lighthouse. Milwaukee's buildings are in the far background.

Milwaukee Breakwater Light

This postcard illustrates Milwaukee's downtown and breakwater light on Lake Michigan, captioned as "The Gateway to the World."

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Greetings from Milwaukee: Selections from the Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection, Archives. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. 
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Lake Michigan
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Cityscapes, Lakes
Long shot of the large "History in the Making" sign on the top front of the Fiserv Forum facade showing five Milwaukee Bucks stars with Giannis Antetokounmpo in the middle. Two work crews stand on a boom lift while working on the sign on the right, next to Khris Middleton's photo. A street sign under the portrait reads "Herb Kohl Way."

Milwaukee Bucks 2021

A work crew at the Fiserv Forum updating the "History in the Making Sign" the morning after the Milwaukee Bucks won the 2021 National Basketball Association championship for the first time in 50 years.

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July 21, 2021
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Amanda I. Seligman
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Milwaukee Bucks
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Groups, Indoor, Murals, Signs, and Statues, People, Sports and Recreation, Streetscapes
Exterior view of a dilapidated duplex house facing slightly to the right. This image shows two sides of the two-story structure. One on the left has a wooden exterior wall and windows. One on the right features two doors on the ground floor and three regularly spaced windows on the second. The wall is mainly in a poor condition. One of the windows is broken; others are mostly covered.

Milwaukee Building to Be Demolished

Building regulations, such as housing codes, categorized and quantified physical characteristics of structures in Milwaukee. This building, from the 1400 block of North 6th Street, was in such poor condition that it was razed soon after this photograph was taken in 1947.

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From the Historic Photo Collection of the Milwaukee Public Library. Reprinted with permission.
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Building Regulations
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Buildings
Long shot of two bungalows separated by a driveway. Both feature one-and-a-half-story buildings with an arched entrance door. The buildings have front yards with green lawns.

Milwaukee Bungalows

Photograph featuring typical bungalows of the Milwaukee area.

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Judith Kenny and Thomas C. Hubka
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Milwaukee Bungalow
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Buildings, Residential Facilities
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