A Winter Afternoon on the Milwaukee River in 1898
The Milwaukee River was once a hot spot for sport and recreation.
The Milwaukee River was once a hot spot for sport and recreation.
A group of local women opened a temporary place of “rest and refreshment” for veterans.
Pabst Park’s roller coaster was “the only one of its kind in the West” – a region that included Milwaukee in the early 1900s.
The West Allis company made everything from steam engines to nuclear reactors.
When this photograph was taken in about 1888, Milwaukee had nearly 200,000 residents, making it the 16th-largest city in America.
Take a look back at the Big Gig in 1976.
The church, which was demolished in 1967, was the social and spiritual anchor of the city’s Italian community.
The tradition of the municipal Christmas tree began in 1910.
The school served a small community of fishing families from 1896 to 1919.
Before the Brewers take the field, check out the long-forgotten 1905 team that shared the same name.