Photograph
Jones Island Dwellings
| Elevated view of a cluster of old dwellings in the center, with broken shacks and rusted cars. In the background are railroad cars, and an industrial area with men working. In the distance is the shoreline of Lake Michigan. In the foreground is the shadow of a hill with a figure on top, presumably the photographer. |
| Image ID: | 56151 |
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| Creation Date: | 10 28 1938 |
| Creator Name: | Taylor, J. Robert |
| City: | Milwaukee |
| County: | Milwaukee |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Taylor, J. Robert, 1876-1959 : J. Robert Taylor photographs, 1898-1930 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | (T35)143 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 4 inches |
| Jones Island was a marsh island located between the Milwaukee and Kinnickinnic Rivers in Milwaukee, just south of the harbor entrance. Polish immigrants settled the island in the 1870s, and it eventually became a small village of approximately 1600 people as well as a center of commercial fishing. The village was eventually torn down for a sewage treatment plant. The last fishing shanty was demolished in 1961. From Ackerman, Sandra. Milwaukee Then and Now. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2004, p. 98-99. |
| Railroad cars |
| Railroad trains |
| Shorelines |
| Michigan, Lake |
| Housing |
| Cities and towns |
| Deterioration |
| Dwellings |
| Islands |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Automobiles |
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