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Photograph

Workers Relaxing Outside Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Workers relaxing outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. One group is crowded around a stage listening to a band while others are playing baseba...
Photograph

Posthole Digger Powered by Engine

Date: 1948
Description: Hough Payloader with post-hole digger powered by a non-International engine.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering 6-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 1935
Description: Three ladies and four men examine a McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler at a dealership or branch house. The photograph was taken in a large well-lit room ...
Historical Essay

Puerto Ricans in Wisconsin

Brief history of Puerto Ricans in Wisconsin.
Historical Essay

Dutch in Wisconsin

Leart about Dutch immigration to Wisconsin, which peaked between 1840 and 1890 and was divided into Protestant and Catholic group.
Historical Essay

Hispanics in Wisconsin

Learn about the history of Hispanic Americans in Wisconsin.
Historical Essay

The Rise of Skilled Manufacturing

How Industry Transformed the State
Discover how skilled industries like ship building and paper milling transformed Wisconsin history.
Historical Essay

Latvians in Wisconsin

Brief history of Latvians in Wisconsin.
Property Record

11142 W BRADLEY RD

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Isaac Leister House
Reference Number: 27731
Feature Story

Robert R. Spitzer Receives 2010 'Charles Van Hise Award for Distinction in Education'

Wisconsin History Maker Award
Learn about the president emeritus of the Milwaukee School of Engineering. This artcile details his leadership roles in numerous companies and firms.
Historical Essay

Wisconsin State Fair - Image Gallery Essay

View a pictorial review of the Wisconsin State Fair from 1851 when it began.
Property Record

133 W OREGON ST

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Lindsay-Bostrom Building (A. George Schulz Company)
Reference Number: 113458
Property Record

1029-1031 N Doctor Martin Luther King Jr Dr (AKA 1029-1031 N 3RD ST)

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Bauer Building
Reference Number: 108681
Historical Essay

Slovenians in Wisconsin

Learn about the Slovenians who settled in cities in the southern and eastern parts of the state in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Historical Essay

Mexicans in Wisconsin

Brief history of Mexicans in Wisconsin.
Property Record

1037 N Doctor Martin Luther King Jr Dr (AKA 1037 N 3RD ST)

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 31833
Property Record

1001 N Doctor Martin Luther King Jr Dr (AKA 1001 N 3RD ST (NW CORNER OF 3RD & STATE))

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: JOHN HINKEL BUILDING/SALOON
Reference Number: 46658
Historical Essay

Allis, Edward P. (1824-1889)

Learn more about the entrepreneur and manufacturing innovator who established, Allis Company, Milwaukee's largest industrial employer in the late 1880s.
Property Record

1105 S 7TH ST (AKA 723 W WASHINGTON ST)

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
Reference Number: 15571
Historical Essay

Lincoln, Abraham (in Wisconsin)

Documented and Legendary Accounts of Lincoln's Visits to Wisconsin
Abraham Lincoln's visits to Wisconsin, documented and legendary.

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