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Manufacturing of Ring Gears, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 1979 . WHS Image ID 50787

Falk Corporation: Images of a Milwaukee Manufacturing Giant

Once known almost exclusively as a manufacturing and brewing powerhouse, Milwaukee owes at least part of its reputation to the Falk Corporation. Long before the Falk name became synonymous with the manufacturing of industrial gears, the company was known as a Milwaukee brewery established by Franz Falk and Frederick Goes. Milwaukee's role as a world leader in industrial manufacturing is reflected in these images of the Falk Corporation, this month's featured gallery.

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In the summer of 2007 we began contributing images from our online collections to the Flickr community — word got out about the work we'd been doing and we were thrilled when photography blogger Miguel Garcia-Guzman expressed an interest in writing an article about the work we do in the WHS Images digital lab.

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Images of the Underground

In 1974 the Wisconsin Historical Society Press published Undergrounds: A Union List of Alternative Periodicals in Libraries of the United States and Canada in an edition of about 750 copies. The work of a graduate student and later Society librarian, James Danky, the book was based on the Society's collection of underground, today's alternative, newspapers, which bloomed in the 1960s in the U.S. and Canada but had mostly come to an end by the mid-1970s. The Society has one of the largest collections of underground newspapers in the nation, a selection of which are featured in this image gallery.

Highlander Folk School

The Highlander Folk School, and later the Highlander Research and Education Center, began in the 1930s as a social leadership center focused on labor organization in Monteagle, Tennessee. In 1953, Highlander shifted focus to civil rights, reflecting an underlying belief that progressive advances in the South depended greatly on defeating segregation. Throughout its 75 year history, Highlander has provided a critical voice for social and economic justice. That this voice persists today serves as a testament to the vitality of American egalitarian ideals and as a reminder that the forces of inequality have yet to be fully silenced.

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