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Flour Milling

Author: Bethany Harding
Grayscale sketch of the Eagle Flouring Mills' facade. The building features six stories, regularly spaced windows in each story, and a chimney with billowing smoke. Two signs on the upper exterior walls read "Eagle Flouring Mills" and "John B.A. Kern & Son." The drawing shows horse-drawn vehicles and people walking in front of the building. A train passing on railroad tracks is in the left foreground. In the left background a portion of a sailing vessel is visible.
Flour milling became Milwaukee’s first manufacturing industry of note during the middle and late nineteenth century. The city’s first flour mill opened in 1844, and the rate of production increased steadily throughout the 1840s and 1850s as additional mills began operation. Despite steady growth, however, Milwaukee’s flour industry experienced its largest boom after 1870. Prior… Read More

Food

Author: Michael Carriere
Grayscale wide shot of Broadway Street displaying long lines of horse-drawn vehicles parking next to the Commission Row's building complex.
Even though it is a brutally cold December day in the city, the Milwaukee Public Market—an indoor collection of close to twenty food and drink vendors that opened in 2005—is packed. It is lunchtime, and men and women who work downtown are taking advantage of the market’s proximity to the office towers that they will… Read More

Food Processing

Author: Joseph B. Walzer
Grayscale postcard illustrating Jacob Nunnemacher's distillery in three images. The dominating drawing on the upper portion of this postcard denotes a farm area. The image on the bottom left shows the distillery, and the bottom right displays rows of cows.
Throughout Milwaukee’s history, firms of different sizes preserved, processed, and packaged raw ingredients from Wisconsin farms, producing an array of foodstuffs, including alcoholic beverages, baked goods, candy, and ice cream. Many of these specialties derived from skills that pioneer settlers and later immigrants brought with them and developed over time. Production and preservation of food… Read More

Football

Author: Michael D. Benter
Sepia-colored photograph of the 1936 Marquette University football team in the Cotton Bowl stadium. Four rows of the men in their uniforms pose with backs to the empty bleachers.
Milwaukee has a rich football history at a variety of levels: amateur, collegiate, high school, and professional. Although the sport had already attracted public interest in the nation and the state, perhaps the first notable game played in Milwaukee came on November 23, 1889, when a team sponsored by the Calumet Club defeated the University… Read More

Frank Zeidler

Author: James J. Casey, Jr.
Grayscale photograph of Mayor Frank Zeidler signing a Book of Remembrance behind a desk. Members of the Zionist Organization of America stand near him while looking at the book. The room interior is visible in the background. An American flag appears on the left back.
Frank Paul Zeidler (September 20, 1912-July 7, 2006) was the forty-first mayor of Milwaukee, serving from April 20, 1948 to April 18, 1960. His successful tenure coincided with the last dynamic period of growth in Milwaukee. While the post of mayor is nonpartisan, he is known as the last Socialist mayor of a major American… Read More

Franklin

Author: Doug Schmidt
An advertisement consisting of two promotional materials. The upper portion displays words and pictures promoting the 41 Twin Outdoor Theater's gala opening. The bottom portion features the "Four Faces West" movie poster on the left and the shows' schedules on the right.
Franklin originated as a heavily wooded, 36-square-mile frontier bordering Racine County and bisected by the Root River. It was inhabited by the Potawatomi and Menominee Indian tribes until the mid-1830s, when German, Dutch, and Irish immigrants began arriving to clear the land for farming. Milwaukee County put land up for sale at $1.25 per acre,… Read More

Franklin Heights

Author: James K. Nelsen
Sepia-colored aerial shot of the A. O. Smith Corporation site and its surrounding area in the Franklin Heights neighborhood. The corporation's building complex appears prominently among residential houses.
Franklin Heights is a neighborhood in the City of Milwaukee between Capitol Drive, Burleigh Street, Twentieth Street, and the railroad tracks that run through the former A.O. Smith industrial complex. While sometimes the area south of Townsend Street is not counted as part of the neighborhood, this entry uses the broader definition. Franklin Heights started… Read More

Fredonia

Author: Niles Niemuth
Exterior view of Stony Hill School in daylight, facing slightly to the right. Fieldstone walls shape the single-story building. The facade features double doors and a covered porch. Atop the roof is a wooden belfry and a chimney. The trees shade the school's front yard.
The Town of Fredonia is located in the northwestern corner of OZAUKEE COUNTY. The Town of Fredonia was created out a portion of the Town of Port Washington in 1847. The Town contains the Village of Fredonia and the unincorporated communities of Waubeka and Little Kohler. The Town of Fredonia was settled by GERMAN and… Read More

Freeways

Author: James J. Casey, Jr.
Grayscale and blurry aerial shot of the intended route of the Park West Freeway shows blocks of vacant lands surrounded by densely packed residential areas. The tall buildings of the downtown are visible in the right background.
The Milwaukee freeway system, for the past 50 years, has served as the backbone of commuter and commercial traffic in MILWAUKEE COUNTY and southeastern Wisconsin. Contrary to urban myth, the system was built with democracy as a central characteristic. Engineers did not develop the system without public input or implement it over the objections of… Read More

French

Author: Bill Reck
Exterior view of Solomon Juneau Replica Cabin in Juneau Park. The small log cabin has a covered porch and a log bench. A wooden entrance and window are on the front side. A stone chimney appears on the right side of the gable roof. The cabin sits on a lawn with trees around it. Buildings are visible in the far background.
The Milwaukee area’s French heritage predates the history of the city. For thousands of years, the area at which Milwaukee would be founded was populated by American Indian groups. During the seventeenth century, French missionaries and fur traders, representing both France and the French colony of New France, began to populate areas of northern Wisconsin.… Read More

Froedtert Hospital

Author: Michael Pulido
The multiple-story Froedtert Hospital building stands on the right, near the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin on the left. Above is a clear blue sky. The hospital's name signage is installed on top of the building's rounded corner. An intersection and a traffic light appear in the foreground.
The centerpiece of the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center, Froedtert Hospital serves as the teaching affiliate of the Medical College of Wisconsin. Froedtert opened in 1980 after nearly three decades of often halting planning that revolved around the trust left by Milwaukee malt baron Kurtis R. Froedtert. A latecomer to Milwaukee’s health care scene, Froedtert Hospital,… Read More

Frozen Custard

Author: Matthew Costello
Exterior view of Leon's Frozen Custard stand and drive-in against a cloudy sky. The large yellow store sign is installed on top of the building. Different kinds of equipment placed right next to the store's glass wall are visible from the outside.
Frozen custard caused a sensation at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago. Although similar to ice cream, custard contains more cream and less milk, along with egg yolk and butterfat, which gives it a smoother texture and richer taste than ice cream. Following the fair, Wisconsinites brought it north, opening custard stands in the greater… Read More

Fur Trading

Author: Bethany Harding
Sketch illustrating two cabins. One is on top of a hill between tall trees. A body of water filled with reeds flows on the bottom of the sketch. A second hut stands near the edge of the water, along with an anchored canoe. A person is paddling a canoe in the body of water.
During the early European settlement period, Milwaukee was one of several fur trading posts along the western Great Lakes. Wisconsin’s fur trade originated in the second half of the seventeenth century when the French exchanged various small but useful items for peltry and foodstuffs from indigenous men and women. By the mid-1700s, fur trading had… Read More

Fusion Party

Author: Thomas J. Jablonsky
A headshot of Gerhard Bading in grayscale tone. Bading looks directly at the camera lens in his notched lapel suit.
To blunt the potential of a labor candidate for mayor in 1888, Milwaukee Republicans and Democrats successfully merged their interests through a unity or fusion ticket. A similar tactic was used in 1908 within several aldermanic campaigns. Then immediately after SOCIALIST EMIL SEIDEL won the 1910 mayoral election, the Milwaukee Sentinel prophetically called for unity… Read More

Gambling

Author: Matthew J. Prigge
Grayscale wide shot of three slot machines lining the wall of the Star Bar and Grill Room. On its right are two people, each holding a drink in a glass. A bartender stands smiling behind the bar. Bottles line the wall.
As is the case with most matters of vice, gambling has a history in Milwaukee that dates back to the community’s foundations. The area’s earliest gambling dens catered to lead miners from across southeastern Wisconsin. These men, flush with cash and accustomed to a rugged lifestyle, made sure that the village’s earliest card games were… Read More

Gangs

Author: Stan Stojkovic
Two newspaper clippings appear side by side. One on the left is titled "Are An Organized Gang." The right reads "Gang of Boy Burglars" with the subheading "Depredation of Appleton Lead to Belief That Organized Crowd Are Working There--Seen by Woman."
Gangs, once called “boy gangs” to distinguish them from adult criminal gangs, have been a feature of urban America since the nineteenth century. The notion of gangs has always raised a number of issues, including race and ethnicity, economic opportunity, criminal behavior, and ultimately political decisions regarding the use of resources to address gangs as… Read More

Garbage

Author: Kathleen Foss
Postcard illustrating a life-saving station next to a garbage crematory against the sky. Both buildings have towering chimneys. A body of water surrounds this area.
At the time of Milwaukee’s founding as three separate communities, the concept of “garbage” did not exist in the way we think of it today. Household wastes such as digestive products were deposited in privy vaults, food remains were composted or fed to family hogs or chickens, and firewood ash was either used for soap… Read More

Gas Company Flame

Author: Catherine Jones
Night view of a street in Milwaukee showing blue light shining from the weather beacon in the form of a flame over the Wisconsin Gas Company building.
The iconic Gas Company Flame was added on top of the ESCHWEILER-designed WISCONSIN GAS BUILDING in 1956. Standing 21 feet and weighing 4 tons, the beacon provides navigational light for Lake Michigan vessels and indicates the local weather forecast by its color. The flame contained neon and argon tubing, but by spring 2014 was replaced… Read More

GE Healthcare

Authors: Gene Medford and Leon P. Janssen
A white closed-bore MRI machine in a well-lighted, white room. The photo shows a long and empty patient table that is connected to the round opening of the machine. Buttons and lights circle the top of the opening.
GE Healthcare (GEHC), with major research, manufacturing, and management activities located in the Milwaukee area, is among the world’s most prominent providers of advanced healthcare technologies. Its offerings range from medical imaging (including radiography, fluorography, mammography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance, molecular imaging, and ultrasound), software and IT, patient monitoring, and diagnostic pharmaceuticals to drug discovery,… Read More

Gemütlichkeit

Author: Heike Bungert
A high-angle shot of a block party held on a street in a grayscale color. People crowd the area. Some sit on rectangular tables. Some rest at round picnic tables that have umbrellas on them. Others stand here and there. Commercial buildings, including a furniture store and Mader's restaurant, line the background.
“Gemütlichkeit” is a term mostly untranslated by contemporary U.S. American observers, although it is sometimes interpreted as “geniality.” It is a character trait that Germans and in particular German-Americans defined as specific to themselves. “Gemütlichkeit” can include any number of activities, generally revolving around having fun: relaxing, enjoying beer and (German) food, music, and dance… Read More
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