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| Date: | 07 31 2014 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the prop rudder and the port side propeller of the Milwaukee. The ship remains largely intact and upright, with both the propelle... |
| Date: | 08 01 2014 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of a smokestack of the Milwaukee. While the ship is sitting upright, the smokestack is resting on the bottom of the lake bed. |
| Date: | 09 16 2014 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of a portion of the wreck of the Milwaukee. In the center a portion of the last cargo, a pile of sinks stacked together, are resting... |
| Date: | 08 03 2014 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of an archeologist surveying the site of the sunken Milwaukee. The archeologist is swimming over a measuring tape, which runs from t... |
| Speakers Bureau |
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| Michael E. Stevens is a WHS Press author and a member of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau. |
| Brief description of the sinking of the Lady Elgin which was carryinh about 300 Milwaukeeans. |
| Date: | 07 27 2014 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of an automobile that had been part of the cargo carried on the Milwaukee when it was lost, on the floor of Lake Michigan. The car i... |
| Use these materials to teach Wisconsin history in your classroom |
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| Civil War veteran and Trappist Monk |
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| Learn about the lay brother from Wisconsin who worked at Damien's colony of exiled native Hawaiian lepers. |
| Learn about the women of Wisconsin, and their lives during the Civil War. |
| Brief rundown of the events surrounding the series of confrontations between the Meskwaki (Fox) Indians and French, largely fought between 1712 and 1730. |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Merchant Mills Block |
| Reference Number: | 16136 |
| Soldier, Fur Trader and "Father of Wisconsin" |
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| Brief biography of soldier, fur trader and the "Father of Wisconsin," Charles Michel Langlade. |
| Brief account of the Peshtigo Fire that, in 1871, destroyed in two hours a swath of forest 10 miles wide and 40 miles long. |
| Survivors of the Peshtigo Fire |
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| Learn about two settlers, a white man and Indian woman, who survived the Peshtigo Fire. |
| Community: | Black River Falls |
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| County: | Jackson |
| Historic Name: | Union High School |
| Reference Number: | 16195 |
| Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir |
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| Useful facts about polio and post-polio syndrome |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Concentration camp sweater worn by Tadeusz Kowalczyk while a prisoner at Auschwitz during World War II. (Museum object #1985.92) |
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