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| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | One of the many demonstrations organized by the People's Progressive Party in Milwaukee to fight the ever-rising cost of living. The campaign includes the ... |
| Community: | Whitefish Bay |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
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| Reference Number: | 176885 |
| Community: | Greenfield |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Marvin and Laura Karrels House |
| Reference Number: | 141925 |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | North Milwaukee High School |
| Reference Number: | 100008907 |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | President William Howard Taft at the Wisconsin State Fair (front row, in the dark bowler hat) in 1909. Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., (in the back ro... |
| Date: | 02 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Three musicians are on a stage; an audience is in the background. One man in the foreground is playing the drums, another man is playing a tenor saxophone,... |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Dover Street School and Social Center |
| Reference Number: | 16000239 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Peckham Junior High School |
| Reference Number: | 12000319 |
| Date: | 02 22 1898 |
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| Description: | Front and back covers and menu page for the 29th annual banquet of the Old Settlers Club of Milwaukee County. Front cover includes a circular portrait of c... |
| Lumberman, Financier and Congressman |
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| Biography of Isaac Stephenson who was a lumberman, financier and congressman. |
| This Milwaukee born woman successfully advocated for progressive reforms in the educational system and was influential in the Milwaukee socialist movement. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Bandana featuring music score for campaign song "We Want Teddy," used at a Milwaukee campaign rally for Theodore Roosevelt, 1912. (Museum object #1970.204) |
| Learn the inside story of the Teasdale Vice Committee Investigation of 1913 in Wisconsin and their crusade against "social evil." |
| During the Progressive Era, this Milwaukeean helped Jewish immigrants assimilate into American society while maintaining their ethnic heritage. |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | MITCHELL PARK DOMES |
| Reference Number: | 52569 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Humboldt Park Elementary School |
| Reference Number: | 237848 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Nunn-Bush Shoe Company Factory |
| Reference Number: | 100001599 |
| Community: | Whitefish Bay |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Carl Herzfeld House |
| Reference Number: | 9305 |
| Community: | West Allis |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Meiners Pharmacy |
| Reference Number: | 230573 |
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