{"id":703,"date":"2012-06-09T16:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T16:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2012-06-09T16:58:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T16:58:57","slug":"milwaukee-public-schools-leading-to-some-other-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Public Schools leading to some other questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my long term projects is on the Milwaukee Public schools. \u00a0 This is going much slower than I thought, only because there is so much interesting material that diverts me away from where I am supposed to be working.<\/p>\n

I have been given a copy of an image that is of unknown location, year, and significance, but thought that someone could give me some information on it.<\/p>\n

The picture is attached and shows children and their teacher wearing cold weather coats, hats, and blankets on their laps. \u00a0In the background, there are two men just right of center in the photo.<\/p>\n

It appears to me that the classroom does not have a wall in the back, but the print quality is pretty poor.<\/p>\n

I am going to guess that the picture was taken in the 1890s or so.<\/p>\n

Does anyone know anything about this photo? \u00a0I cannot find a copy of it on the Internet and because of the two men in the background who look like they are of some import, I do not think that this is the normal photo showing children undergoing horrible conditions to inspire the public to act, such as the famous Breaker Boy photos of children working in the coal industry or pictures of street orphans in NYC.<\/p>\n

When I attended John Marshall High in Milwaukee, I vaguely recall our senior history class text stating that schools in the 1890s in some of the eastern coast region had enrollments of up to 10,000 or 12,000 students! \u00a0I don’t know if I am remembering that anywhere near being accurate, as Marshall’s enrollment when I was there was over 3,900 and it seemed pretty big.<\/p>\n

The photo makes me wonder if this was taken at one of those schools where the numbers of children were rapidly increasing and this was the temporary solution to that, while walls were going to be added or a room was being built elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Could anyone enlighten me on the photo, including a source for a better copy? I would also love to hear whether those gigantic schools did exist.<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

Paul\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my long term projects is on the Milwaukee Public schools. \u00a0 This is going much slower than I thought, only because there is so much interesting material that diverts me away from where I am supposed to be working. I have been given a copy of an image that is of unknown location, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}