Old pictures of City of Waukesha

c. 1898

Historic Downtown

1945

Discovery of Nazi Gold in a Salt Mine

1936

Housing under the Wisconsin Avenue viaduct

1875

Milwaukee Turners

1903

The original Harley-Davidson motorcycle factory.

1945

Vintage Downtown

1930

Newspaper Boys

c. 1952

State Street at Night

c. 1930

A woman uses an antique Maytag washing machine.

1964

Shelves with lost umbrellas

1900

August Scheele in his grocery store

1940

The First Mac Donald's

c. 1897

7th & Jay St.

1899

ERNEST HEMINGWAY 5 MONTHS

1943

Union Station

1893

Viking, replica of the Gokstad Viking ship, at the World Fair

1893

An exhibit hall interior of the World Columbian Exhibit

1959

North Shore Line

c. 1930

re-enactment of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1934

Garegin Nzhdeh with Yeghishe Hakobyan and Y.G. Hovakimyan in Chicago

1925

Confiscated liqour at the federal warehouse

1919

Chicago race riot.

c. 1901

Halsted Street Vertical Lift Bridge

1955

Archer and Halsted

1893

The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk

1919

Man on Porch During Race Riot

1893

Ferris Wheel at the World Columbian Exposition

1893

The great Krupp building, Columbian Exposition

1975

Rabbit strike at the Playboy nightclub

c. 1903

Lincoln Monument

1918

Michigan Avenue

1911

Grant Park, south from Art Institute

1930

The Last Four Couples Who Survived the Chicago Dance Band

1902

Montgomery Ward & Co. building

1955

Aerialist Betty Fox Jumps Rope

1931

The Queue for Gangster Al Capone's Free Dining Room

1922

A woman shows off a cane containing a flask for alcoholic beverages

c. 1900

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium

1931

Kitchen opened by Al Capone.

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre