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Sheepshead

Author: Matthew Costello
Long shot of a banner reads "Sheepshead" hanging on the outside of a white-colored tent in the background. A gigantic printed art depicting the Queen of Clubs card appears in the image's foreground.
Sheepshead is a popular American card game that originated in Central Europe during the eighteenth century. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the first major wave of European immigrants arrived in the United States. While the city of Milwaukee attracted immigrants of all kinds, Germans quickly became the largest immigrant population in the city;… Read More

Sherman Park

Author: Paul Geenen
Elevated view of North Sherman Boulevard from North Avenue in daylight. The avenue is divided by a central grass median. Some cars traverse the avenue, and some are parked on the sides. Tall trees grow on the road verges. Sidewalks and buildings in the vicinity are visible.
Sherman Park is a primarily residential neighborhood on Milwaukee’s West Side, located between 35th and 60th streets, North Avenue and Capitol Drive. It is one of the city’s most diverse communities. In the late 1890s, GERMAN residents of Milwaukee’s crowded North Side began building homes in the farmland west of the railroad line that ran… Read More

Shorewood

Author: Kathleen Kean
A painted postcard showcases a bird's eye view of the Wonderland amusement park. Its buildings with red-colored roofs surround an extensive green lawn. Lush green trees grow on the lawn and in the area behind the park. A water slide and a pool are visible on the postcard's right portion. Text at the bottom reads "Panoramic View, "Wonderland on the River, Milwaukee."
In 1900, the village of East Milwaukee was incorporated. It occupied an area of roughly 1.5 square miles between Lake Michigan and the Milwaukee River, the Milwaukee City border on the south, and the recently incorporated village of Whitefish Bay to the north. In 1917, the name was changed to Shorewood to further distinguish the… Read More

Sikhs

Author: Jenna Jacobs
Long shot of the gurdwara building in Brookfield. The place's orange-colored monument sign appears in its yard. Several plants and green lawns embellish the yard in the foreground. Tall green trees are visible in the background. Above is the clear blue sky.
While there is no authoritative count of American Sikhs, the Pew Research Center concluded that in 2012 about 200,000 Sikhs (a conservative estimate), primarily of Indian descent, lived within the United States. As signs of faith and social solidarity, many Sikhs adopt the names “Singh” (lion) for men and “Kaur” (princess) for women. A monotheistic… Read More

Sister Joel Read

Author: Alan Borsuk
Grayscale headshot of Sister Joel Read smiling in a habit. Her body faces slightly to the left while her eyes glance to the right.
Sister Joel Read, SSSF, was the central figure in transforming Alverno College on Milwaukee’s South Side from a small, religious-oriented institution run by the School Sisters of Saint Francis into a pioneer in programs serving non-traditional students and measuring student success in innovative ways. During her thirty-five years as president of Alverno, Read became a… Read More

Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers

Author: Michael Gonzales
Long shot of the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center building standing on a street corner. The two-story building is composed of bricks and ornamented with light blue paint on several sides. The Center's sign is visible on the exterior wall. Some people traverse near a red car parked next to the building. Traffic lights are visible. The blue sky is above.
  Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers (SSCHC) have provided free and affordable health care services to low-income patients since 1969. That year, neighborhood organizers opened a small, volunteer-run health clinic at the corner of South 16th Street and West Greenfield Avenue. Since its earliest days, SSCHC has worked to serve the needs of the South… Read More

Skateboarding

Author: Michael Pulido
Full shot of a skateboarder in a hat and jeans pants bending their body while doing a flip trick at the indoor Cream City Skate Park. Two people are visible in the distance. The ceiling's steel structure, a skate ramp, a wall, and a mural that reads "Cream City" appear in the background.
A California import, skateboarding appeared in Milwaukee in the 1960s and rose in popularity in the 1970s. Local authorities perceived skating as dangerous and wasted little time banning it from most public places. According to contemporary accounts, this led to confrontations between skaters and authorities, which supported skateboarding’s outsider image. Nevertheless, skaters careened down the… Read More

Skylight Music Theatre

Author: Justin Smith
Long shot of two actors performing under the spotlight in the Skylight Music Theatre. They stand on a platform, opening their arms and mouths as if singing to the audience.
The Skylight Music Theatre was founded in 1959 when TV program manager Sprague Vonier and public relations Agent Clair Richardson sought to replicate the cultural vibrancy of New York and San Francisco in Milwaukee by opening a beatnik coffee house in the empty building next to Richardson’s office. While at a fundraising event for a… Read More

Slovaks

Author: Bill Reck
Grayscale formal photograph of the Sokols gymnastics group posing in three rows in an indoor space. Men in suits and ties sit in the back row. Men in sleeveless gymnastic uniforms stand in the third row. A combination of female and male gymnasts in uniforms and two other adults sit with arms crossed in the second row. In the front row, six female gymnasts sit cross-legged on the floor with their arms crossed.
The Milwaukee area’s Slovak population dates from the 1880s, when economic dislocation at home and nationalist resistance to the Magyarization policies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire prompted immigrants to come to the United States in search of jobs and a better life. At the time, labor agents from American industrial plants, including southeast Wisconsin’s Patrick Cudahy… Read More

Slovenes

Author: Brian Mueller
Long shot of Harmonie Hall facade on a street corner in grayscale. It features an arched dormer window at the top and several square windows beneath. The entrances of this three-and-a-half-story building are closed. A sign that reads "Harmonie" is above the main entryway. A beer advertisement painted on the building's side is visible. A car is parked in front of the Hall. Adjacent buildings and an intersection are visible.
Living in tight-knit communities in southern Milwaukee, West Allis, and Cudahy, Milwaukee Slovenian immigrants constructed an assortment of churches, fraternal orders, and cultural institutions that preserved their traditions while they also adapted to America. The earliest Slovenes arrived in Wisconsin in the 1870s when Slovenia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the migration continued… Read More

Soccer

Author: William McMahon
Full shot of two University of Wisconsin's women's soccer team players in red jerseys and their opponent from Marquette University in a yellow shirt running to the left. Kate Gordon of Marquette University is on the image's right. Her opponents are on the left. Other players and green trees are visible in the background. They play on a green field in daylight.
Metropolitan Milwaukee boasts a rich history of youth, amateur, and semiprofessional soccer programs. It can even lay claim to holding the first recorded match in the United States, a challenge between Carroll College students and Waukesha youths in 1866. By the early twentieth century, clubs in the city of Milwaukee formed among immigrants in ethnic… Read More

Social Development Commission

Author: Alexander Belovsky
Entrance to the Social Development Commission building. The organization's name sign is placed above the door. Bricks and stones compose the exterior wall.
The Social Development Commission (SDC) is the largest of eighteen members of the Wisconsin Community Action Program Association, with responsibility to develop and oversee programs designed to improve the quality of life for low-income Milwaukeeans. Created in 1963 by state statute, the Commission involved the collaboration of civic organizations including the City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee… Read More

Socialists

Author: Tula Connell
Grayscale elevated shot of Mayor Daniel Hoan standing to the left in the image's center while giving a speech to a massive crowd of strikers in an outdoor space at the Seaman Auto Body plant. Mayor Hoan stands on a higher platform than the crowd who are looking up at him.
Many German immigrants came to Milwaukee in the mid-nineteenth century influenced by the doctrines of Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, and Ferdinand Lassalle. And in the process, they came to form the core of Milwaukee socialists. Holding their early meetings in German, this informal socialist Vereinigung (or association) initially did not expand to the wider community.… Read More

Society of Friends

Author: Jenna Jacobs
An entrance sign made of wood reads "Religious Society of Friends--Quakers--" On top of the wood structure is inscribed the place's address number "3224."
Members of the Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, were among the early Yankee-Yorker settlers in Southeastern Wisconsin in the 1830s. Over a century later, the current Milwaukee Monthly Meeting—the Society of Friends congregation in Milwaukee—was founded. The Milwaukee Friends Meeting, like its counterpart in Madison, arose from the pacifist movements of the 1920s… Read More

Solomon Juneau

Author: Bethany Harding
A painted portrait of Solomon Juneau facing left in formal attire. Beneath the drawing reads "Solomon Juneau at the Age of 60 (from an oil painting)."
Milwaukee co-founder Laurent Solomon Juneau was born on August 9, 1793 at Repentigny, a small farming village near Montreal. Juneau entered the fur trade as a teenager, working (perhaps) for the Hudson’s Bay Company before becoming an independent agent based in Prairie du Chien. In 1818 the young voyageur met Jacques Vieau, a well-established trader… Read More

Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission

Author: Paul G. Hayes
A Milwaukee map entitled "Historic Urban Growth in the Region: 1850-2010." The title is on the top left. Beneath this is the legend displaying ten colors that refer to each decade from 1850 to 2010. Milwaukee County is entirely covered with different colors, while the outlying counties show some white space without urban development indicated.
Since 1960, the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC) has prepared and published long-range, comprehensive plans to guide physical development in Wisconsin’s southeastern counties of Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Walworth, Washington, and Waukesha. SEWRPC was authorized by an executive order from Governor Gaylord Nelson, recognizing that “problems of physical and economic development and of environmental… Read More

Spanish-Language Media

Author: Raul Galvan
Grayscale medium shot of three men standing and working before a desk full of documents. The man on the left uses scissors to cut a paper while smoking a cigarette. The other men look at the documents with their hands on the table.
As Latinos (mostly Mexicans) began to settle in Milwaukee in the 1920s, they developed newspapers to disseminate news and information about their community in their native Spanish language. The earliest known newspapers were the Boletín Informativo and Sancho Panza, which was named after the fictional character in Cervantes’ novel Don Quijote. In 1930, several Latino… Read More

Special Schools

Author: Elizabeth R. Drame
Grayscale photograph of two female therapists assisting two children around a pool in Milwaukee's Gaenslen School. In the foreground, a therapist in a bathing suit exercises a child's right leg. The kid's hands hold special handrails attached to the pool edge. In the right background, another therapist stands next to the pool and helps a child who sits in a chair hanging over the water.
Perspectives on disabilities and how to incorporate individuals with disabilities into mainstream society have evolved over the past couple of centuries. People with disabilities were viewed as less than human and treated as such. The views of individuals with disabilities in the 1800s reflected the assessment of value and worth in society. For example, people… Read More

Spiritualists

Author: Jenna Jacobs
Long shot of facade and side of Morris Pratt Institute in grayscale tone. The two-and-a-half storybuilding has two entrances with stairs: one on the facade, one on the side. The facade features a balcony and a porch enclosed with ornamented balustrades and windows. The building's side has a decorated portico and regularly spaced rectangular windows. Dormer windows are set on the steep mansard roof. Text beneath the image reads "Morris Pratt Institute, Whitewater, WIS."
In 1848, the Fox sisters reported communicating with spirits through rappings in their Hydesville, New York home. Sparked by this revelation, Spiritualists began forming churches and spirit circles throughout the United States in hope of similarly contacting the dead. Wisconsin became a center for the Spiritualist movement, which counted among its followers such dignitaries as… Read More

St. Benedict the Moor Mission and Church

Author: John Vietoris
Grayscale wide shot of the St. Benedict the Moor Institute on the left and St. Anthony Hospital on the right. Both multiple-story buildings are separated by the long 10th Street, which stretches down in the middle. Other buildings that line the street sides are visible in the background. Next to the hospital, on the image's far right, appears a small portion of a church cupola.
Established in 1908, St. Benedict the Moor Mission was the principal focus of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s early ministry to African Americans. Its school was one of the few boarding schools for African American children in the country. While priests and sisters formed good Catholics, they also nurtured strong, knowledgeable, and confident individuals able to… Read More
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