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Gender

Authors: Margo Anderson and Krista Grensavitch
Rear view of two people walking on a sidewalk towards Gimbels Department Store. The person on the left wears a dress and a large hat while the other is in a suit and a smaller round hat. A group of people crowd the entrance of the store. A big "Gimbel’s" sign appears on the building's exterior wall.
The people who have lived in the Milwaukee metropolitan area make up a diverse population—they inhabit a wide variety of social and economic dimensions, including, but not limited to the following: ancestry and ethnicity, economic situation, age, living arrangements, political and religious views, and gender. An examination of all these identities and categorizations, each providing… Read More

George H. Walker

Author: Bethany Harding
Grayscale medium shot of George Walker in an oval frame. Walker dresses in formal attire. He faces slightly to the left. The photo appears yellowish.
George H. Walker was one of three prominent nineteenth-century founders of Milwaukee, along with Solomon Juneau and Byron Kilbourn. Born on October 22, 1811 in Lynchburg, Virginia, Walker first moved westward as a young teenager when he migrated to Gallatin, Illinois with his family. Then, in early 1834 he headed for Milwaukee and settled on… Read More

George W. Peck

Author: Bethany Harding
Sepia-colored headshot of George Peck in glasses making direct eye contact with the camera lens. Peck wears a high collared shirt and a suit.
George Wilbur Peck bridged major developments in the cultural and political maturation of Milwaukee and Wisconsin in the late nineteenth century. The oldest of three children, Peck was born in Henderson, New York on September 28, 1840. He moved with his family to Cold Spring, Wisconsin where he left school as a teenager to learn… Read More

German Fest

Author: Karalee Surface
Wide shot of on-stage performance of musicians in traditional German garb. Most of them play an instrument. Two sing on a microphone while raising a glass. The conductor stands in the center.
German Fest, one of many ethnic celebrations in Milwaukee, honors the city’s rich German cultural heritage. When then-Milwaukee mayor Henry Maier challenged the city’s local German groups to create a German gathering akin to other ethnic festivals being organized at the time, they responded by forming German Fest. Their primary goal was to promote German… Read More

German-Language Media

Author: Viktorija Bilić
One of the earliest available edition of the Wiskonsin-Banner, dated March 15, 1845. The Banner then was a weekly paper with a yearly subscription fee of 2 dollars to be paid in advance.
Milwaukee’s German-language press, much like the city’s German community in general, was characterized by its size and diversity. Half of Milwaukeeans claimed German ancestry in 1910, and the German language was omnipresent in the “German Athens” (Deutsch-Athen) during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many immigrants turned to the German-language press as a bridge between… Read More

Germans

Author: Alison Clark Efford
Three rows of the men's chorus of the Milwaukee Musikverein pose in a sepia-colored photo. Men in the two front rows sit, and the last row stands, all in their suits and ties. Most of them hold a brass instrument. A man sitting in the middle front carries a baton.
Milwaukee is the most German of major American cities, and Germans have constituted Milwaukee’s largest immigrant group. The city’s brewing industry, tradition of ethnic festivals, built environment, and history of working-class politics all display the influence of the German immigrants who arrived in especially large numbers during the half-century following 1850. As the number of… Read More

Germantown

Author: William I. Tchakirides
Outdoor sign made of wood is inscribed "Willkommen in Germantown." The words are set between a man and woman figure in traditional German clothing and under images of German-style buildings and fur trees. Next to it is a small board that reads "Best Places to Lives, Money Magazine's 2007 Great American Towns."
Designated in 1836 as Wisconsin Territory’s “Town Nine,” the area that became Germantown was the oldest settlement in WASHINGTON COUNTY. Following the removal of the area’s native POTAWATOMI people in the 1830s, speculator Anthony Wiesner and pioneer Levi Ostrander became the settlement’s first white residents. GERMAN and IRISH immigrants and Yankee migrants dominated this early… Read More

Gertie the Duck

Author: Amanda I. Seligman
Grayscale image of Gertie the Duck stepping on a wooden piling facing directionally to the right towards four eggs laid in another piling.
In the spring of 1945, as World War II slowly ground toward Allied victory, a duck laid a clutch of nine eggs on a piling near the Wisconsin Avenue bridge. The eggs’ precarious perch alarmed watchful bridgetenders and attracted the attention of Milwaukee Journal outdoor reporter Gordon MacQuarrie. Over the next two months, his lively… Read More

Getting Around

Author: Robert Balmer
Long shot of a smiling kid cycling with a small child who sits on the front basket. Their legs float in the air, letting the bike freely ride down the sidewalk. Both wear warm clothes in this grayscale-colored image. Leafless trees, a tall building, and a parked car are visible in the background.
Humans love to travel. We want to explore new places, learn new things, experience new cultures, and then return home again to familiar surroundings. There are also practical reasons why we go from one place to another. We need to go to work, or visit relatives, or purchase food and clothing, or just socialize. But… Read More

Golda Meir

Author: Brigid Nannenhorn
Grayscale group photo of dozens of people posing in a classroom. Some in the foreground sit on chairs, while others stand behind them next to the room's walls. Meir is seen at the extreme right in a white dress. They all make direct eye contact with the camera lens.
Born Golda Mabowitz on May 3, 1898 in Kiev, the future Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, faced anti-Semitism from an early age. Indeed, in 1903 her family moved to Pinsk to escape the threat of Russian pogroms. Shortly thereafter, the family emigrated to Milwaukee. There, the family opened a grocery store, which Meir helped run… Read More

Golfing

Author: John H. Schroeder
Grayscale long shot of a woman showing a golf swing movement on a Milwaukee course. Two women play several feet behind. They all wear casual clothes and hats.
The game of golf is typically seen as a warm weather sport which thrives in sunbelt states, but it is also a vibrant and popular pastime in the Upper Midwest, including Wisconsin and Milwaukee. In 2016, there were over 600 private and public golf courses of different kinds in Wisconsin. In the five-county greater Milwaukee… Read More

Grand Avenue

Author: Jonathan Zagrodnik
High-angle shot of the grand John Plankinton Mansion surrounded by manicured lawns and trees. A pathway appears on the left of this sepia-colored image. The path is connected to a large driveway which leads to the house's entrance.
Grand Avenue was an officially designated Milwaukee street from 1876 to 1926. It first developed in the 1850s as Spring Street, where wealthy residents built large estates on the outskirts of the city. Over the successive decades, their mansions emerged as a suburban “gold coast.” By the 1920s, however, that suburban character dissipated as downtown… Read More

Granville

Author: Jenna Jacobs
Sepia-colored long shot of a group of people standing in front of Doornek & Wranovsky Blacksmiths shop. A horse-drawn cart is parked on the left. Two people on the right each sit on horses. Two other horses appear from inside the shop's opened entrance. The building with wooden walls features a chimney and the store sign on its roof. The road in the foreground is muddy.
Originally a town within MILWAUKEE COUNTY, Granville is now a neighborhood located on the CITY OF MILWAUKEE’s northwest side. Created in 1840 by the territorial legislature, the Town of Granville extended north from Hampton Avenue to County Line Road and west from 27th Street and Range Line Road to 124th Street. The majority of this… Read More

Great Circus Parade

Author: Monica Witkowski
Grayscale wide shot of a carriage with passengers drawn by a team of ponies turns from center to right onto State Street. A huge crowd watches the Great Circus Parade from both sides of the street. Some buildings appear in the background.
Perhaps it is no surprise that in a city made famous by beer, Schlitz Brewing brought the circus to the streets of Milwaukee by sponsoring the first Great Circus Parade in 1963. As a fundraiser for the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin, the Great Circus Parade featured animals, circus wagons, marching bands, wagons, clowns,… Read More

Great Depression

Author: Daryl Webb
Long shot of a group of men working on power lines in the middle of a road. Three men stand on top of their vehicles focused on crisscrossing electrical cables. One man aims a large pair of shears at the wire. An electrical pole stands between them with its sturdy body tilted from centre to the right front of this image. Some men in suits and hats are watching them from below.
The 1930s were a volatile decade in Milwaukee. The Great Depression that gripped United States had a dramatic impact on the city, throwing thousands of Milwaukeeans into poverty, creating tensions that sometimes turned violent, and producing an intense crime wave that shocked the city. The first signs of the Great Depression began with the crash… Read More

Greater Milwaukee Committee

Author: John M. McCarthy
High-angle shot showing the construction of the Milwaukee Arena. Grandstands appear from inside the unfinished building. A truck drives out of the building. Planks and girders lay on the ground. Milwaukee's downtown buildings are in the background, including the County Courthouse on the right and the Wisconsin Gas Building on the left.
Founded at the end of World War II, the Greater Milwaukee Committee’s (GMC) roots lie in the creation of the 1948 Corporation, a group of businessmen initially led by Richard Herzfeld, president of the Boston Store, and Irwin Maier, president of the Milwaukee Journal. They were concerned by the physical and economic conditions of downtown… Read More

Greeks

Author: Bill Reck
Exterior view of the original Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in grayscale. The facade features a grand entrance that has portals adorned with arched structures. Two gate towers flank the front doors. Crosses stand atop the towers. Words in Greek are inscribed along the center roofline.
Greek immigrants began arriving in Milwaukee in the final decade of the nineteenth century, with the 1900 United States Census registering the first Greek-born Milwaukeeans. Arriving to a large extent from the Peloponnesus peninsula in the southwest of Greece, they left for America for a number of economic reasons, including poor soil and crop failures,… Read More

Green Bay Packers

Author: Diana Belscamper
Wide shot of two football teams playing at the County Stadium. Lines of photographers kneel by the green football field while aiming their camera at the players, who are in action. Sun rays hit the field and the packed grandstand.
The Green Bay Packers, founded by Earl (Curly) Lambeau and George Calhoun, joined the American Professional Football Association (later the NFL) in 1921. One of the NFL’s most successful franchises, the Packers have won thirteen national championships, more than any other team in NFL history, and four Super Bowls (following the 1966, 1967, 1996, and… Read More

Greendale

Author: Sherry Ahrentzen
Grayscale wide shot of two small children walking in the middle of a long street in one of Greendale's residential areas. Multiple identical, unadorned suburban houses line the left side of the street.
The federal government developed Greendale in 1936 as part of the Resettlement Administration’s (RA) Greenbelt Towns Program. Some historians, such as Paul Conkin, consider the greenbelt communities built under this program to be one of the most innovative New Deal initiatives. Resettlement Administration head Rexford Guy Tugwell is credited with the idea for these towns.… Read More

Greenfield

Author: Robert Roesler
Wide shot of Greenfield's Spring Mall parking area in grayscale. Rows of cars park in the center, and the stores line the edge of the parking lot in the background of the photograph. Pick'n Save, Fish Galore, and Blue J Hardware storefront signs are among others visible in the mall's exterior wall.
Surveyed for settlement in 1836 and created as the Town of Kinnickinnic in 1839, the 36 square mile area between present Greenfield and College Avenues and 27th and 124th Streets was soon renamed “Greenfield,” the title of its post office, in 1841. There is no known association for its name; there are “Greenfields” in many… Read More
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