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Postcard of the Mitchell Park Conservatory showcases a large sunken garden featuring a green lawn, trees, flower beds, and a reflecting pool. The Conservatory in white color is visible on the far left background.

Mitchell Park Conservatory Gardens

Prior to its razing in 1955, the Mitchell Park Conservatory featured large sunken gardens through which visitors could walk.

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Greetings from Milwaukee: Selections from the Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection, Archives. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. 
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Clarke Square
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Buildings, Landscapes, Theaters, Arenas, and Museums
A long shot of three glass domes glistening in daylight, absorbing the blue color from the sky above. The center dome is located a bit far behind. In front of it, flanked by the left and right domes, is a series of nine arched structures, each having a set of windows. Only three structures in the center feature an entrance. Landscaping plants and benches are also situated between the left and right domes. A road stretches from left to right in the foreground. A green lawn appears at the image's bottom portion.

Mitchell Park Domes

Photograph featuring the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, commonly known as The Domes.

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From the Library of Congress Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory (The Domes)
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Buildings, Theaters, Arenas, and Museums
Group photo of the Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition in an indoor space. Some wear headcoverings. Most of them step on a raised platform. Some pose in the front standing on a patterned carpet. A gray wall and a door are visible in the background. Four chairs and a table line the foreground.

MMWC Outreach

The Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition hosts a variety of community, school group, and interfaith dialogue events to promote peace and understanding.

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Photograph courtesy of the Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition. Reprinted with permission.
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Muslims
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Groups, Organizations, People
As the Concordia neighborhood changed over the course of the twentieth century, more multi-family residences began to appear. This 2016 photograph illustrates the corner of W. Kilbourn Avenue and 28th Street.

Modern Concordia Neighborhood Scene

As the Concordia neighborhood changed over the course of the twentieth century, more multi-family residences began to appear. This 2016 photograph illustrates the corner of W. Kilbourn Avenue and 28th Street.

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From Flickr. Photograph by Paul Sableman. CC BY 2.0.
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Concordia
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Streetscapes
Grayscale group photo of the Modern Diesel Mechanic School students posing in three rows in front of the school building. All the men sitting in the first row wear coats. The rest wear a mix of coats and jackets. The background consists of an entrance in the middle and symmetrical glass window walls on the entrance's left and right sides.

Modern Diesel Mechanic School

Students of the Modern Diesel Mechanic School, located at 1430 S. 1st Street, pose for a group photograph in 1936.

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From the Roman B. Kwaniewski Photographs Collection, Archives. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. 
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Vocational Education
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Buildings, Educational Facilities, Groups, People
Long shot of a modern Kenosha streetcar facing right traversing a road. The trolley, predominantly in orange color, passes the Kenosha Public Museum that sits in the background. Overhead wires stretch above the streetcar.

Modern Kenosha Streetcar

Kenosha's modern streetcar line opened in 2000. The city's public museum, founded in 1933, moved to its current location pictured here in 2001.

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From Flickr. Photograph by David Wilson. CC BY 2.0.
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Kenosha County
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Buildings, Theaters, Arenas, and Museums, Transportation
Wide shot of a patient room where two nursing students practice on a mannequin that lies in a patient bed in the center of this image. One person stands on the left and watches over the students who flank the patient bed.

Modern Nursing Students

Students enrolled in the Associate's Degree nursing program at Waukesha County Technical College practice on a mannequin in 2016.

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From Flickr. Photograph courtesy of Wisconsin Technical Colleges. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
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Nursing Education
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Groups, People
Long shot of Modjeska Theater on a street corner in grayscale. The ornate building features a large arch structure in the middle. A wrought-iron gate encloses the front. Some people stand next to it. Two entrances are on the left and right corners, protected by awnings. The theater's vertical sign is installed on the building's left front. Adjacent buildings on the right are visible. One vehicle is on the street in the right foreground.

Modjeska Theater

This photograph features the first Modjeska Theater, which stood from 1910 to 1923. The building was then razed and replaced with the new Modjeska Theater in 1924.

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From the Roman B. Kwaniewski Photographs Collection, Archives. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. 
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Movie Theaters
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Buildings, Theaters, Arenas, and Museums
The front cover of Monatshefte für deutsche Sprache und Pädagogik. The title's English translation, "A Monthly Devoted to the Study of German Language and Literature," is inscribed below the German title. The year 1918 is written at the page's bottom.

Monatshefte für deutsche Sprache und Pädagogik

The front cover of Monatshefte für deutsche Sprache und Pädagogik, "A Monthly Devoted to the Study of German Language and Literature," from 1918.

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Accessed via JSTOR.
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German-Language Media
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Book and Newspaper Clippings
A painted postcard illustrates the Monkey Island at Washington Park. A group of monkey gathers on sloping green terrain with a small stair-step waterfall in the middle. The waterfall ends on a pond in the foreground.

Monkey Island at Washington Park

One of Washington Park's first popular animal exhibits was Monkey Island, illustrated on this 1927 postcard.

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Greetings from Milwaukee: Selections from the Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection, Archives. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. 
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Milwaukee County Zoo
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Animals, Outdoor, Sports and Recreation
Long shot of Montag-Boogk Home standing on a green lawn. The single-story building features cream brick exterior walls. The facade facing left has an entrance between two rectangular windows. The house's other wall visible in this image includes a rectangular window and a small round window on its top. A basement bulkhead door sits at the foot of the wall.

Montag-Boogk Home

The Montag-Boogk Home, maintained by the Greenfield Historical Society, originally stood on the corner of present-day S. 60th Street and W. Cold Spring Road.

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From the Wikimedia Commons. Photograph by username Sulfur. CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Greenfield
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Buildings, Residential Facilities
Long shot of the Morey Milk Condensery in grayscale. The entrance is on the right under the shade of a big, lush tree. The building extends to the left background. A tall chimney appears in the far left. A grass field spans the foreground.

Morey Milk Condensery

Though only operational for a short duration of time, the Morey Milk Condensery spurred economic growth in North Prairie in the early 20th century.

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From the Wisconsin Historical Society, WHS-8345.
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Village of North Prairie
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Buildings, Manufacturing Facilities
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."

Morris Pratt Institute

This 1889 photograph features the Morris Pratt Institute, the only Spiritualist college in the United States, at its original location in Whitewater. The institute still exists today and is now located in Wauwatosa.

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From the Wisconsin Historical Society, WHS-79802. Reprinted with permission.
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Spiritualists
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Buildings, Educational Facilities
Grayscale wide shot of the rider of a vintage motorcycle on the left racing with an antique car on the right. Both leave behind a cloud of dust . The motorbike rider wears a Harley Davidson jacket. His vehicle features a sidecar. Both drive through the corner of the dirt-surfaced track. A fence lines the circuit in the far background.

Motorcycle Racing a Car

A man wearing a Harley Davidson jacket races an automobile driver at a track in Cedarburg some time in the 1920s.

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From the Historic Photo Collection of the Milwaukee Public Library. Reprinted with permission.
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Motorcycling
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Outdoor, Sports and Recreation
Long shot of Mount Mary University building and its green space. A multiple-story building with a central tower stands in the background. The building is partially obscured by a wide yard adorned by green trees, well-trimmed shrubs, lawns, and paths. A rectangular light-blue pond with a small fountain appears prominently in the foreground. Next to the pond is a Mary statue atop a stone base.

Mount Mary University

Although its origins date back to 1872, Mount Mary University first opened its Milwaukee campus in 1929 and continues to educate students today.

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Photograph courtesy of Mount Mary University. Reprinted with permission.
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Mount Mary University
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Buildings, Educational Facilities
A painted postcard illustrates the exterior view of Mount Sinai Hospital in the distance. The rectangular multi-story building sits on a street corner. The ground floor has a cream-colored exterior wall, while the floors above feature a brown color. Several vintage cars line the street next to the hospital. Tall trees with sparse foliage grow on the lawn around the building. A green space appears in the left foreground. A portion of an empty street is on the right front. The blue sky is depicted above.

Mount Sinai Hospital

Postcard created between 1907 and 1930 featuring Mount Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee.

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Greetings from Milwaukee: Selections from the Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection, Archives. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. 
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Mount Sinai Hospital
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Buildings, Healthcare Facilities
Portrait of the First Lady Lady Bird Johnson standing on the right while facing left on a raised platform. She carries scissors in her right hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Her left hand is grasping a yellow ribbon that stretches from far left to farthest right. Some men in suits and ties surround her. A bunch of mics stand near the First Lady. The top parts of the Domes entrances in arched shapes stand behind her. One of the Domes rises in the background.

Mrs. Johnson at Horticultural Conservatory Dedication

This photograph was taken on First Lady Lady Bird Johnson's beautification tour of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 21, 1965. In this photograph, Mrs. Johnson attends the dedication of the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory. During her trip, she addressed the American Institute of Park Executives and toured the Boerner Botanical Gardens.

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Copyright 1965 White House Historical Association. Reprinted with permission.
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Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory (The Domes)
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Buildings, People, Theaters, Arenas, and Museums
An elongated mural on the I-43 overpass wall in Milwaukee displays caricatural images of people running from slavery. Drawn on the wall, is a figure of a man holding a protest sign that reads "Free Joshua Glover Now" while parading Glover on his shoulder.

Mural of Joshua Glover

Found on the I-43 overpass in Milwaukee, this mural depicts Joshua Glover's escape from slavery.

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From Flickr. Photograph by Jimmy Emerson. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
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Joshua Glover
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Murals, Signs, and Statues
Long shot of the corner of the Museum of Wisconsin Art building. The image shows two sides of this triangular-shaped structure. Each side features a white-colored wall and a glass curtain wall that converge dramatically in the image's center. Green lawns appear outside the building on the left and right sides. Trees are seen on the left background. Other buildings are seen on the right back.

Museum of Wisconsin Art

A 2016 photograph of the Museum of Wisconsin Art, founded in 1961. Its new building, pictured here, opened in 2013.

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From Flickr. Photograph by Ryan Ojibway. CC BY-NC 2.0.
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West Bend
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Buildings, Theaters, Arenas, and Museums
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.

Music at German Fest

Musicians dressed in traditional German garb perform at German Fest in 2007.

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From Flickr. Photograph by digidave. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
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German Fest
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Festivals and Celebrations, Groups, People
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