Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company -- Buildings; Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Milwaukee Gas Light Company -- Buildings; Electric railroads -- Cars -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Corporations -- Headquarters -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee;...
This photo, taken in 1914, shows a streetcar headed for N. 35th St., then the far West Side, after having just passed Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s newly opened headquarters building. The structure, designed by Marshall and Fox, a...
Nathan Sherman and his son David pose next to three bushels of bulk candy in this photo of the Sherman Pharmacy at 35th St. and Villard Ave. The photo was taken in 1927. An old-fashioned marble-topped soda fountain and booths behind the Shermans...
A simple but elegant house like this, with its Greek Revival style featuring four columns in the front and classical cornices, must have looked like a gem in the wilderness when it was built in 1844 on a hill above a tamarack swamp, at what was...
First Wisconsin National Bank (Milwaukee, Wis.); Jefferson Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Banks and banking -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Banks and banking -- Security measures -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Trucks
Fashions in banking - vehicular and otherwise - really do change, as this 1929 photo shows. This First Wisconsin National Bank truck was being unloaded at the Milwaukee Post Office by Frank Paul (left), the driver; Leo Vogt, chief messenger, and...
Although it was still a dirt street, Villard Ave. was already a main thoroughfare through North Milwaukee, lined with shops and a tavern or two. Villard ran from 27th St. west to Fond du Lac Ave., but North Milwaukee stretched only as far as 42nd...
Villard Avenue was one of the main arteries when North Milwaukee was a village and then a city. This photo, taken not too long after North Milwaukee was annexed to Milwaukee in 1929, shows a street lined with stores for every need, a bustling...
Blizzards -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Winter -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Snow -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Weather -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Twenty-Seventh Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Brown Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Electric railroads -- Cars --...
The blizzard of Jan. 29-30, 1947, probably was the most memorable ever to hit Milwaukee. Fighting it proved almost impossible, so the city mainly just waited it out. People soon demonstrated their resourcefulness and flexibility, sleeping on...
Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Rafenstein and Knaack's Hotel and Saloon (Milwaukee, Wis.); Reed Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Second Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Knaack, Frank; Rafenstein, Louis
The modern cocktail lounge with its fancy decor was unheard of in 1914 when this picture was taken. You could get a shot of Kentucky whisky for only a nickel when you stopped at Rafenstein and Knaack's Hotel and Saloon on 137 Reed (later N. 2nd)...
Mitchell Park (Milwaukee, Wis.); Parks -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Dance halls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Pavilions -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Mitchell Park, long famous for its gardens and, more recently, its three-domed conservatory, had other attractions, too. Pictured above is an open air dancing pavilion that opened in 1945. Mitchell was one of the first parks set up by the Park...
Franklin Place (Milwaukee, Wis.); Baumann, Herman F.; Baumann, George; Grocery trade -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Sales personnel -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Herman F. Baumann, Grocer (Milwaukee, Wis.)
A modern grocery store in 1910 - that's how George H. Baumann of Wauwatosa describes this picture of his father's business establishment on Milwaukee's East Side, 856 Franklin Pl. (later 1708 N. Franklin Pl.). This photo shows proprietor Herman F....
McGee, James; Lake Drive (Whitefish Bay, Wis.); Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Whitefish Bay; King, Henry; King, Harry; King, Paul Juneau; King, Helen; McGee, Pauline; Whitefish Bay (Wis.)
Old houses are much admired by passersby today for their architecture, grandeur and the way of life they represented, but many people remember when they were simply homes - like this one, once the James McGee residence at what was later 5569 N....
State Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Faries, Robert J.; Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Concordia College -- Buildings; Dentists -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Dentistry -- History -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Astronomy -- Wisconsin --...
One of Milwaukee and Wisconsin's pioneer dentists was Dr. Robert J. Faries, who settled here in 1844. His first home was a two story frame dwelling on what is now the southwest corner of E. Wisconsin and N. Cass, but his next residence(in the...
Seventeenth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Vliet Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Schoenecker, Frank G.; Service stations -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Gasoline industry -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Trucks; Kissel Motor Car Company
Back in 1919, when Frank G. Schoenecker first got his job working for Standard Oil, he received a brand new Kissel truck, made in Hartford, to drive on his rounds. Back then, his job was as "tank truck salesman." He sold the company's Red Crown...
This 1895 photo is of the residence of Emil Walber on the northwest corner of 6th and Galena. Most local historians think of Walber at first as mayor of Milwaukee from 1884-1888. But Walber figures prominently in other capacities in public life. ...
Laacke, Richard T.; Peterson, John -- Family; Peterson Family; Florida Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); R. Laacke Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.); Laacke and Joys (Milwaukee, Wis.); Joys Brothers Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.)
This photo was taken in 1897, the year 18 year old Richard Laacke went into business for himself as a steeplejack, sign hanger and awning manufacturer. He is shown standing in the center of the John Peterson family. Peterson helped hang signs and...
City Hall (Milwaukee, Wis.); Municipal Court (Milwaukee, Wis.); Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Municipal courts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Courts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; City halls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
This classic looking courtroom was none other than the Milwaukee Municipal Court, located then in City Hall. The photo was taken in January, 1897, when the honorable Emil Walber was the judge. Milwaukee's Municipal Court was created in 1859. It...
This was the Milwaukee Arena - well 95% of it - in a "work in progress" photo taken March 17, 1950. On that date, Alexander Eschweiler Jr., architect of the Auditorium Board, reported that the interior would be finished in time for dedication...
Ruck, Frederick C.; Milwaukee Public Library (Milwaukee, Wis.); Steam-boilers
Seated at his rolltop desk is the late Frederick C. Ruck, chief engineer. He ran the "power plant" in the Central Library and Museum building at 8th and Wisconsin for 40 years - from 1905 until he retired at age 70. The steam generators in this...
Weather -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Winter -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Kinnickinnic River (Wis.); Frank Braeger (Fishing boat: 1931); Archie Tegtmeyer (Fishing boat); Hugh B. (Fishing boat); Alf (Fishing boat); Anna (Fishing boat); Herrmann (Fishing...
Coal piles, smokestacks, a river (frozen though it was) and a flock of fishing boats were arranged together to form a photographic thing of beauty 40 years ago today, in this picture taken Feb. 15, 1936. The numbing reality behind the photo,...
Courthouses -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Cathedral Square (Milwaukee, Wis.); Milwaukee County Courthouse.
The promotional advertisement that ran in The Milwaukee Journal on Nov. 12, 1963 - the day before the first appearance of the Green Sheet's "Remember when" feature, which pictured (above) the old Milwaukee courthouse - suggested that the series...
