[1] “Gay Pride Week,” Take Heed!, [1970], The Gay Peoples Union Digital Collection, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, accessed December 28, 2015; “Gay Pride,” Kaleidoscope, p. 2, December 10-18, 1970, Kaleidoscope Digital Collection, UWM Libraries Digital Collections & Initiatives, accessed December 27, 2015; “Gay Events This Week,” Kaleidoscope, p. 19, January 1-8, 1971, Kaleidoscope Digital Collection, Kaleidoscope Digital Collection,
[1] Douglas C. McMurtrie, Early Printing in Milwaukee (Milwaukee: Wisconsin Cuneo Press, 1930), 14, 39-41; History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin: From Pre-Historic Times to the Present Date, Embracing a Summary Sketch of the Native Tribes, and an Exhaustive Record of Men and Events for the Past Century; Describing, the City, Its Commercial, Religious, Educational and
[1] Professional wrestling defies simply categorization: its scripted performance and showmanship suggest a theatrical form of entertainment—or sports entertainment, as it became known in the 1980s—but wrestling is not painless for the participants and requires significant athletic talent and willingness to endure pain and injury. See Sharon Mazer, Professional Wrestling Sport and
[1] Richard C. Crepeau, “Prohibition in Milwaukee” (MA thesis, Marquette University, 1967), 18-19, 35, 65-66, 99, 107; Ashley Zampogna, “Canoli in the Cream City,” e-polis 3 (Fall/Winter 2009), 75-77.
[2] Crepeau, “Prohibition in Milwaukee,” 20-21, 33.
[3] Robert W. Wells, This Is Milwaukee (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), 191-193.
[1] Gay prostitution, less visible, also has existed in Milwaukee. See, for example, Gerald Stephen Graczkowski, “The Subcultural Phenomenon of Gay Male Prostitution in Milwaukee” (MA thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1985).
[2] “Resolutions of Common Council,” Milwaukee Sentinel, February 16, 1850; “Proceedings of Common Council,” Milwaukee Sentinel, January 29, 1851.
[1] John Gurda, The Making of Milwaukee (Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1999), 2.
[2] Marie Kohler, “Indian Mounds: Wisconsin’s Priceless Archaeological Treasures,” ExpressMilwaukee.com, June 15, 2011, last accessed September 10, 2017; Lizard Mound County Park, Wisconsinmounds.com website, last accessed September 10, 2017.
[3] Diane M. Buck and Virginia A. Palmer, Outdoor Sculpture in Milwaukee:
[1] Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, “School District Directory,” https://apps4.dpi.wi.gov/ SchoolDirectory/Search/PublicDistrictsSearch last accessed August 13, 2016, now available at https://apps4.dpi.wi.gov/SchoolDirectory/Search/PublicDistrictsSearch, last accessed July 18, 2017. This entry was first posted on September 8, 2018 and corrected on May 24, 2019.
[1] John Gurda, The Making of Milwaukee (Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1999), 264-65.
[2] Phyllis Santacroce, “Rediscovering the Role of the State: Housing Policy and Practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1900-1970” (PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2009), 63.
[3] Santacroce, “Rediscovering the Role of the State,” 86-87.
[1] Jeff Bentoff, Just the Facts: The 100-year History of Milwaukee’s Public Policy Forum (Milwaukee: Public Policy Forum, Inc., 2012), 1. Entry posted on November 8, 2018 and updated May 9, 2022.
[2] Bentoff, Just the Facts, 1.
[3] Bentoff, Just the Facts, 5; Mordecai Lee, Bureaus of Efficiency (Milwaukee: Marquette University
[1] Randy Garber, ed., Built in Milwaukee: An Architectural View of the City (Milwaukee, WI: City of Milwaukee, Henry W. Maier, Mayor, and the Dept. of City Development, William Ryan Drew, Commissioner, 1981), 84.
[2] Joseph J. Korom, Look Up, Milwaukee: Eastside/Westside, All Around Downtown: A Descriptive and Pictorial Display of Selected
[1] Laurence Marcellus Larson, “A Financial and Administrative History of Milwaukee,” Economics and Political Science Series 4, no. 2 (Madison, WI: Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, 1908), 268.
[2] Kate Foss-Mollan, Hard Water: Politics and Water Supply in Milwaukee, 1870-1995 (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2001), 47.
[1] Increase Allen Lapham, A Geographical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin; with Brief Sketches of Its History, Geology, Mineralogy, Natural History, Population, Soil, Productions, Government, Antiquities, &c. &c. (Milwaukee: P.C. Hale, 1844).
[2] Kirk Bates, “A Century of Printing in Milwaukee,” The Milwaukee Journal, May 11, 1940, 4; Douglas C. McMurtrie, <
[1] Cristobal Berry-Cabán, “Puerto Rican Strategies for Survival: Work and Kinship among Esperanceños in Milwaukee” (Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1981). This entry was posted on November 11, 2016 and updated on September 14, 2022.
[2] Elisa Romero, personal communication, July 16, 2015.
[3] Avelardo Valdez, “The Social and Occupational Integration among Mexican and Puerto Rican Ethnics
[1] John Fennell, Ready, Fire, Aim: With a Belief That Ordinary People Can Accomplish Extraordinary Things, Harry V. Quadracci Built a Legendary Printing Company and Changed an Industry ([Wisconsin]: Quad/Graphics, 2006), 21-45.