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Remember When...horse drawn wagons used Water Street? Title Remember When...horse drawn wagons used Water Street? Description Horses and buggies, horseless carriages and electric streetcars all used E. Water st. (now N. Water st.) in June of 1914 when the above photo was taken. It was a time of change for the city as the automobile came into vogue. Notice the electric lines and telephone cables that crisscrossed the downtown sky. They went underground when the streets were paved. Waldheim and Co., Marshall and Ilsley bank, Swoboda's cafe and the First National bank building (now the First Wisconsin National bank) lined the street leading to the 18 year old city hall. (Picture courtesy of the Russ D. Porter collection, and information from the Milwaukee public library's local history collection.) Library of Congress Subject Headings Water Street (Milwaukee, Wis); Horse-drawn vehicles; Street-railroads -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Streets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; First Wisconsin National Bank (Milwaukee, Wis.); Banks and banking -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Bank buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Marshall and Ilsley Corporation Publisher Milwaukee Public Library Contributor Russell D. Porter Date Original 1914-06 Source Milwaukee Journal Newspaper Publication Date 1969-08-16 Date Copyrighted 2005 Type Image Has Format Photograph Relation RW 600 Collection Remember When, F. P. Zeidler Humanities Room, Milwaukee Public Library Rights All rights reserved © Milwaukee Public Library Order form http://www.mpl.org/coldfusion/email_digital_rw.cfm

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