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The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company Public Service Building, 231 W. Michigan Street,  Milwaukee, WI. The building designed by Herman Esser was completed in 1906. When the electric inter urban trains introduced. Niles/Chicago hardware was originally used and later Russell & Erwin. The symbol was used in other places in the building. The symbol is similar to that of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Click on each photo below to view additional images and information. Formerly catalogued as O-172.

Specifications

School / Style
Emblematic
Circa Dates
​c. 1906
Classification
Category P - P-200
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P-21140

About this record

Catalogue entry P-21140 is an antique doorknob recorded in the Public Buildings/Seals category (Category P, Symbols, Logos, Words & Numbers) of the Antique Doorknob Collectors of America archive. It was made by Niles/Chicago; Russell & Erwin, circa ​c. 1906. The pattern belongs to the Emblematic school of ornament.

Moving off a platform we had outgrown

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