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Marcus Corporation

Author: Justin Smith
Low angle shot of the glowing Marcus Theatre marquee. A vertical sign that reads "Marcus" glows in yellow during the night time. Two small tower-like structures flank the sign. Both emanate lights.
Milwaukee’s Marcus Corporation has its roots in Ripon, Wisconsin where Polish immigrant Ben Marcus (originally Machtey) bought and refurbished the shell of a burned out department store with a $30,000 loan in 1935. He eventually grew the business into one of the largest cinema enterprises in the United States. Marcus arrived in the United States… Read More

Marquette Interchange

Author: Ruben L. Anthony, Jr.
Long shot of the Marquette Interchange under construction. A man using a hammer kneels atop a structure in the right foreground. Construction workers and a variety of heavy equipments are in the background.
The Marquette Interchange is the linchpin of the Milwaukee area freeway system. It is the heart of Wisconsin’s transportation system and the backbone for distributing people and commerce throughout the state. It is estimated that 50 percent of the state’s residents and 60 percent of its major industries use the Milwaukee area freeways. Wisconsin’s major… Read More

Marquette University

Author: Thomas J. Jablonsky
Elevated view of a building complex pm the Marquette University campus and its surrounding area. The Alumni Memorial Union is seen at the image center. Green lawns and landscaping plants arranged in different shapes adorn the yards between buildings in the campus area. Milwaukee's buildings appear in the far background under the blue sky. The Milwaukee County Civic Center and Jail are visible in the left background.
John Martin Henni, the first Catholic bishop of Milwaukee, came to his adopted city in 1843 with several ambitions. Among them, he wanted to open a college. The biggest difficulty with this part of his plan was the absence of an intellectual culture in Milwaukee conducive to such an enterprise. The village—Milwaukee was not even… Read More

Marshall & Ilsley Bank

Author: Jenna Jacobs
Low-angle shot of Marshall and Ilsley Bank building under construction showing the final steel beam being hoisted by a crane that appears at the far top of the structure. The beam is inscribed, "Marshall & Ilsley Bank." Some construction workers stand on the building's edge.
Founded in 1847, Marshall & Ilsley Bank, or M&I, was Milwaukee’s oldest and largest bank before being acquired by Toronto-based BMO Harris Bank in 2011. At the time of acquisition, M&I had $49.6 billion in assets, making it the largest Wisconsin-based bank. From headquarters at 770 North Water Street, the bank employed 9,100 people, nearly… Read More

Mary Blanchard Lynde

Author: William I. Tchakirides
Painted portrait of Mary Blanchard Lynde in glasses and red shawl sitting with eyes glancing to left. Her head leans on her left hand that rests on top of a book placed on a red-colored surface.
Mary Blanchard Lynde (circa 1820-1897) moved from upstate New York to Milwaukee with her husband, William Pitt Lynde, in 1841, a few weeks after their marriage and about a year after her graduation as valedictorian from the Albany Female Academy. In addition to raising seven children with William, a successful politician and founding partner in… Read More

Mary Nohl

Author: Sean O’Farrell
Long shot of an outdoor space at the Mary Nohl Art Environment. Various sculptures of different shapes stand here and there in the garden among the green grass and tall trees. A one-and-a-half-story house adjacent to a one-story garage sits in the background. Several artworks ornament the building's exterior walls.
Mary Louise Nohl was one of the most important local artists in Milwaukee’s history. Nohl was born in Milwaukee on September 6, 1914, to Leo and Emma Nohl. She showed her creativity from an early age by building small structures with discarded materials—including old toys and clothes—that other people considered junk. She also participated in… Read More

Mass Transit

Author: Karen W. Moore
Long shot of a single-story streetcar station on a street corner. Some people stand next to the building, some walk pass the station. Above are the crisscrossing overhead wires. The streetcar tracks embedded in the street are in the foreground.
According to transit historian Zachary Schrag, mass transit “generally refers to scheduled intra-city service on a fixed route in shared vehicles.” Since 1860, opposing political and economic forces significantly shaped the provision of transit in the Milwaukee metropolitan region. These forces included changes in available and economically viable technologies, advocates for public versus private ownership,… Read More

Master Lock Company, LLC

Author: Jenna Jacobs
Side view of two horse-drawn vehicles carrying boxes containing Master Lock padlocks. A group of people load the packages onto a train with a large banner hanging on its side. Signs proclaim this "the largest single shipment of padlocks ever made." Inscribed on the wagons' bodies is "Master Lock Co." Four people standing on the wagons make direct eye contact with the camera lens.
Headquartered in Oak Creek, Master Lock Company, LLC, is a subsidiary of Illinois-based Fortune Brands Home and Security, Inc. The Master Lock Company, including its Master Lock, American Lock, and SentrySafe brands, had net sales of $552 million in 2015. At its height in the 1980s and 1990s, Master Lock employed 1,300 workers at its… Read More

Mathilde Franziska Anneke

Author: Ellen Engseth
A full body shot of Mathilde Franziska Anneke in a studio wearing a long, dark velvet skirt and jacket covering her legs and arms. She poses in a standing position with a pen in her right hand and a small book her her left. Her face looks to her right.
Mathilde Franziska Giesler Anneke was an internationally known educator, women’s rights advocate, journalist and publisher, poet, author, and arts critic who immigrated to Milwaukee in 1850. Over her life in the city she became involved in major liberal political battles of her day, and in her later years she ran a renowned women’s school in… Read More

Meatpacking

Author: Joseph B. Walzer
Sepia-colored long shot of the F.C. Gross Brothers Company building on the center back and the R. Gumz & Company on the far right back. Both stand on the left side of a long roadway stretching from right background to foreground.
Although now much smaller in scale, meatpacking was one of Milwaukee’s leading industries through much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the most prominent form of food processing in the city. The industry and city grew together as firms slaughtered, processed, and packaged livestock—particularly hogs and cattle—from hinterland farms, distributing products for regional, national,… Read More

Medical College of Wisconsin

Author: Alexander Belovsky
Bird's eye view of the Medical College of Wisconsin and its surrounding area. The complex has a series of multiple-story structures standing near roadways and other buildings. Above is a clear blue sky.
The Medical College of Wisconsin has its origins in private, for-profit Milwaukee medical colleges that opened in the late 1800s. One of these enterprises, the Milwaukee Medical College, became affiliated (educationally, though not financially) with Marquette College in 1907. Five years later, a group of local physicians urged the University to strengthen its oversight and… Read More

Memory

Author: James Marten
A painted postcard illustrates the panoramic view of Grand Avenue in Milwaukee with the "Victorius Charge" sculpture in the foreground. The statue features a small group of the Civil War soldiers in uniform. One of the soldiers hold a flag facing left.
Milwaukee’s history is layered into its residents’ everyday lives. They commute to work on streets named for long-gone pioneer roads—Watertown Plank Road, to name one—or noted places or people, like National Avenue, named for the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (the old home for Civil War soldiers established in 1867 that looms over the… Read More

Menomonee Valley

Author: Christopher De Sousa
Aerial shot of the Menomonee Valley in sepia. The Wisconsin Gas Company's coal gas processing and storage facility sits at the image's center. A water body is in the background. Several long roadways are located near the facility. Some residential places appear in the foreground.
The 1,200-acre Menomonee Valley has always played a central role in the economic life of Milwaukee. Flowing through it is the Menomonee River, which provided Native Americans with a canoe route from Lake Michigan into the interior and abundant resources, including menomin (Algonquin for wild rice). As European settlement increased in the late 1800s, the… Read More

Merrill Park

Author: James K. Nelsen
Long shot of Sherburn S. Merrill's mansion at Merrill Park in sepia. The majestic house has several porches on the ground floor and a covered balcony on its second floor. Lush trees grow in the background. A wide lawn and a driveway are in the foreground.
The Merrill Park neighborhood is in the City of Milwaukee between Wisconsin Avenue, Interstate 94, from 27th Street, and 39th Street. It is south of the CONCORDIA neighborhood and east of PIGGSVILLE. Together, the three neighborhoods make up the “West End,” so named because in the late nineteenth century it was at the west end… Read More

Merton

Author: Michele Saltzman
Sepia-colored exterior view of the First Baptist Church of Merton. The single-story main building features an entrance flanked by two rectangular windows. A turret-like structure sits atop the house roof. Scraggly bushes grow in the foreground.
The Village of Merton is located about 25 miles northwest of Milwaukee in WAUKESHA COUNTY, bordering the Towns of Merton and LISBON. Before European settlers arrived there, Native Americans had an encampment in the area, along with a system of trails—one of which European immigrants traveled on their way through the Wisconsin territory. In 1840,… Read More

Meta Schlichting Berger

Author: Brian Mueller
Grayscale medium shot of Meta Schlichting Berger from the thighs up standing in a long sleeved blouse with high rigid collars. She wears a large hat adorned with floral pieces.
Meta Schlichting Berger won election to the Milwaukee school board in 1909, seven years after women could vote in such an election, and a decade before women earned the right to vote in the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Berger remained on the school board for another 30 years. In this and other prominent public… Read More

Methodists

Author: Jenna Jacobs
Long shot of the Summerfield United Methodist Church by the street corner. The grand building has entrances on the left and right sides that are visible in this image. Both sides feature a large arched window and doors. A tower appears prominently on the left side of the church. A staircase connects the front section with the sidewalk. A junction road is in the foreground.
Since the 1830s, Methodists have been worshipping in Milwaukee. This faith tradition encompasses a variety of denominations, including many congregations that have traditionally served particular ethnic, racial, and linguistic groups. Some of these denominations exist today, including many historically black churches, while others have merged into larger communions. The largest Methodist denomination in the nation… Read More

Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council

Author: Gregory D. Squires
A large group of Fair Housing protestors of different ages gathers outside St. Boniface Church. Standing on a higher ground in the right foreground is a young man carrying a protest sign reading "Open Housing."
The Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council (MMFHC) promotes fair housing and creation of racially integrated communities in the Milwaukee metropolitan area and throughout Wisconsin. Fair housing refers to the opportunity to secure housing and housing-related services such as mortgage loans and home insurance free from discrimination based on race and other protected classes that several… Read More

Metropolitanization

Author: Thomas J. Jablonsky
Street map of Milwaukee County and Waukesha County. Municipal boundaries are marked by different colors. The map shows the location of parks, shopping centers, golf courses, schools, freeway flyer parks, hospitals, and highways in the two counties. Bold red lines demarcate postal zones.
“Metropolitanization” can reference a perception, a behavior, or a process. As one moves north, south, or west from the central business district (CBD) of Milwaukee, a seemingly endless landscape of shopping malls and housing districts provides an “urban” definition to what we are seeing, until one reaches less developed areas in Ozaukee, Racine, and western… Read More

Mexican Fiesta

Author: Antonio Guajardo
Sepia-colored full shot of a group of people in various costumes carrying different flags parading down the street during Mexican Fiesta. A man in the front left smiles while gazing up at the American flag he carries. Spectators are in the left background next to cars parked on the street side. More members of the crowd appear in the far right background. Trees grow on both sides.
Mexican Fiesta is a three day celebration of Mexican and Hispanic culture held on the third weekend of August at the Milwaukee Summerfest Grounds. Mexican Fiesta was originally organized in 1973 by LULAC Council #9990 as a street festival to celebrate Mexican Independence and raise money for Latino students pursuing a college education. In 1977… Read More
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