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Poster

Is Your Name on the Honor Roll?

Date: 1918
Description: Banner poster, with text that reads: "Is YOUR Name on the Honor Roll? Fourth Liberty Loan."
Poster

"V"

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a blue "V," outlined in white, on a red background, with a blue and white border.
Photograph

Food for the Boys in France

Date: 1918
Description: An unidentified East Coast warehouse full of food and supplies ready for shipment to the U.S. soldiers in France during World War I.
Map or Atlas

Sedition Map

Date: 1918
Description: Removed from the "New York Sun," March 21, 1918. Shows "where disloyalty in Wisconsin chiefly centres." Shaded areas indicate regions of suspected pro-Germ...
Poster

Yours not to do and die — yours but to go and Buy Victory Bonds 1918

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting soldiers carrying rifles and bayonets leaning forward like they're running to battle. Text reads: "Yours not to do and die — yours but to ...
Property Record

2312, 2310, 2306, 2304 W KEEFE AVE

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 117697
Biographical Book Excerpt

Hoard, William, Dempster

Date: 1836 - 1918
County: Jefferson
Biographical Book Excerpt

Paddock, Jerome, O.

Date: 1844 - 1918
County: Milwaukee
Poster

Mit ihm

Date: 
Description: Two hands grasping in foreground. Image of in background Von Hindenburg. Text reads "Mit ihm."
Photograph

Field Battery Telephone

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian field artillery battery telephone operator.
Photograph

Rotax Portable X-Ray Apparatus

Date: 1914
Description: Advertisement of a 1914 portable X-Ray machine and its parts.
Photograph

Women at War

Date: 05 25 1917
Description: A World War I female factory worker dressed in a uniform repairing her own machinery.
Poster

Sow the Seeds of Victory!

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster promoting individuals to garden and can vegetables for the war effort. Produced by the National War Garden Commission.
Magazine or Periodical

Paste One on the Back of Your Letter to Him

Date: 1918
Description: Page 32 from "The Ladies Home Journal" for November, 1918. There are illustrations of 45 different stamp-sized images. Text for separate groups of illustr...
Photograph

Treasure and Trinket Fund

Date: 01 1918
Description: Mrs. William Bartlett of the Aviation Committee of the National Special Aid Society, examines metal objects donated by members to be sold to benefit Americ...
Photograph

Austrian Field Artillery and Crew

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers preparing a field gun for firing.
Photograph

Our Naval Infantry in Antwerp

Date: 1914
Description: German forces occupied Antwerp on October 10th, 1914 after a two week siege.
Photograph

Our Naval Infantry in Antwerp

Date: 1914
Description: German forces occupied Antwerp on October 10th, 1914 after a two week siege.
Photograph

Downed German Plane

Date: 10 04 1918
Description: German plane shot down between Montfaucon and Cierges, France.
Photograph

Lieutenant Edmund P. Arpin

Date: 01 15 1918
Description: Portrait of Lt. Edmund P. Arpin, taken in Bourdeaux, France.

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