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Updated 03/15/08

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Links

Research Libraries & Online Academic Resources:

Wisconsin Historical Society - Contains Wisconsin Historical Images Collection, Local History and Biography Articles, the Architecture & History Inventory database, and much more.


Wisconsin Electric Reader - Collection of historical articles and images of Wisconsin and Milwaukee.


UW-Milwaukee Libraries Digital Collections - Large collection of Milwaukee Postcards and other online images from Milwaukee Neighborhoods.


Library of Congress, American Memory Collection - Collection of Panoramic maps of Milwaukee from various time periods. Other images of early Milwaukee can be found by searching the American Memory Online collection.


Library of Congress, Built in America - Collection of documents about Milwaukee buildings in the Historic American Buildings Survey.


Children In Urban America - An online archive funded by Marquette University and the National Endowment for the Humanities that shows the many ways children experienced city life during the last century and a half.


Milwaukee Public Museum Photo Collection - Collection of images of Milwaukee taken by Sumner W. Matteson. The Museum also offers a research and photo library which may be of use to academics or professional researchers. Contact Susan Otto for more information.


Milwaukee County Historical Society - The County Historical Society's website.


Milwaukee Public Library - Remember When - Gallery of images from an older series of articles from the Milwaukee Journal. The Milwaukee Public Library also has online access to 19th Century Newspapers and a few 20th century newspapers for library card holders.


Jazz Age Chicago - Obligatory link to Scott Newman's great site about the history of Chicago which provided an influence and model of a useful local history website.


Amateur History Sites:




Retro Milwaukee - Excellent site about the more recent history of Milwaukee.


MSOE Milwaukee Architecture - Dr. Steven Reyer's website and catalogue of many historic Milwaukee buildings.


The Transport Company - A website devoted to the history of Milwaukee County transit.


Bill Vandervoot's Milwaukee Transit - Another website with information about the history of Milwaukee transit.


Tom's Trolleybus Webpage - Large collection of trolleybus pictures and ephemera from 1950s and 1960s Milwaukee.


History of Milwaukee - Scanned book on the history of the City from 1922.


Dick Nitelinger's Milwaukee TV Horror Hosts - Website devoted to the history of Milwaukee television and local horror shows.


John December's huge compendium of all things Milwaukee.



Milwaukee History Groups:




Historic Milwaukee - Website of the local history tour group.


Links To The Past Geneology Resources - An excellent website with a huge amount of information on Milwaukee's history, most of it related to geneology. The site also has a blog which tells the latest news about the site.



Newspaper History Sites:




JS Online, Glimpses of an Earlier Milwaukee - Reprints of articles by early 20th century Milwaukee journalist, Bill Hooker.The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has other parts of their site dedicated to Historic Photos


GM Today Legacy Pages - Stories and photographs from the archives of the Waukesha Freeman.


Making of Milwaukee - Website of John Gurda's MPTV series.