Thursday, October 30, 2025
Other links can be found in the Milwaukee Talk section of the forums.
Links
- 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.
- 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:
- MSOE Milwaukee Architecture - Dr. Steven Reyer's website and catalogue of many historic Milwaukee buildings.
- Bill Vandervoot's Milwaukee Transit - Another website with information about the history of Milwaukee transit.
- 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.
Newspaper History Sites:
- Making of Milwaukee - Website of John Gurda's MPTV series.