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Remember When...Broadway and Wisconsin looked like this?
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| Title | Remember When...Broadway and Wisconsin looked like this? |
| Description | Where today the Railway Exchange building stands, a number of small Milwaukee firms did business back in the 1890s. On the corner of what is now W. Wisconsin av. and N. Broadway was John G. Lee and Co., merchant tailors, offering fine ready to wear clothing -suits from $10 and trousers from $3.50. Also visible in the photograph are other tailoring firms: Peter Frattinger, and Wanamaker and Brown. Dr. Swenk, "The Painless Dentist, " was fitting his patients for best sets of teeth on rubber for only $6.50. Then there was the office of the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway. You could pick up your tickets for a ride on "the shortest, quickest route to Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Saginaw, Detroit, Mount Clemens and Toronto." Other businesses included a floral shop, coal companies, photographers and a confectioner. (Picture, courtesy of Robert C. Lee, 3519 N. 64th st., and information from the local history collection of the Milwaukee public library.) |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings | Broadway Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Streets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Central business districts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Tailors -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Clothing trade -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; J. G. Lee and Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.); H. M. Benjamin Coal and Coke (Milwaukee, Wis.); Eastman Coal Company (Milwaukee, Wis.); Bon Bon Confectionery Company (Milwaukee, Wis.); Miller and Breitwisch, Photographers (Milwaukee, Wis.); Bailey and Esser Company (Milwaukee, Wis.); Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railroad Company |
| Photographer or Studio | Jos. Brown, photo |
| Publisher | Milwaukee Public Library |
| Contributor | Robert C. Lee |
| Date Original | 189? |
| Source | Milwaukee Journal |
| Newspaper Publication Date | 1969-02-15 |
| Date Copyrighted | 2005 |
| Type | Image |
| Has Format | Photograph |
| Relation | RW 548 |
| Collection | Remember When, F. P. Zeidler Humanities Room, Milwaukee Public Library
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| Rights | All rights reserved © Milwaukee Public Library |
| Order form | http://www.mpl.org/coldfusion/email_digital_rw.cfm |
| Date created | 2006-01-13 |
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