Greater Milwaukee's Growing Pains, 1950-2000
Greater Milwaukee's Growing Pains, 1950-2000

Author: Richard W. Cutler

Publisher: Wisconsin

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13:

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This book examines the historic trends and battles which shaped Milwaukee in the past fifty years, including the boundary wars of the 1950s between city and suburban towns and municipalities, freeway construction, and arguments and lawsuits over flooding and the polluting of Lake Michigan. Distributed for the Milwaukee County Historical Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Milwaukee
Milwaukee

Author: John Gurda

Publisher:

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 9780692451892

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Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods is the most comprehensive account of grassroots Milwaukee ever published. Based on the popular series of posters published by the City of Milwaukee in the 1980s, the book features both historical chronicles and contemporary portraits of 37 neighborhoods that emerged before World War II, an ensemble that defines the city of Milwaukee. Richly illustrated, engagingly written and organized for maximum ease of use, the book is a fine-grained introduction to the community.

Swiss in Greater Milwaukee
Swiss in Greater Milwaukee

Author: Maralyn A. Wellauer-Lenius

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010-10-11

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1439640955

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A few men and women, mostly from German-speaking cantons, pioneered this remarkable Swiss community in the mid-1830s. Thousands who followed in their footsteps participated actively in the development of a vibrant new city, branding it with a unique style of efficiency and progressivism. The immigrants and their progeny prospered and distinguished themselves in various fields of science, commerce, art, and industry. They helped launch Charlie Chaplins career, produced coumarin used in flavorings and perfumes, wrote a popular guide for 19th-century immigrants, and helped shape the nations banking industry. Among their finest were Milwaukees first archbishop, a world-renowned surgeon, an elected governor, an influential radical free-thinker, a kindergarten pioneer, a wine grower, a successful whiskey distiller, and a prolific architect.