Monday, July 27, 2020

Ein Ueberbleibsel aus Milwaukees Jugendzeit.

This folksy wood-craft summer house is a lost feature on the grounds of the Alexander Mitchell estate that fills the W. 900 block on Wisconsin Ave. The property became the Deutscher Club, then renamed the Wisconsin Club. This summer house photo is not found in any public collection that I've found, but you can see just a little bit of it in this 1870s illustration insert. The cruciform footprint of the structure is indicated on the Sanborn Fire Atlas map (1894). A windmill shows in the left hand side of the newspaper photo. There was a photo of the windmill in the mpl.org Digital Collection ... at least, until I brought these lost features up to them. But shortly after, the windmill photo was removed (?!?).

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Keine Herren, keine Knechte - Gleiche Pflichten, gleiche Rechte! (Milwaukee, WI 1878)


No masters, no servants - same work, equal rights!

The concept of the "servant leader" was bandied around in the 1990s by an academic, and it continues to be talked about today.

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kwo/win05/departments/book3.htm

Saturday, February 1, 2020

Memorial for Anna Heinl







Two Milwaukee death notices for Anna Heinl: from a local German language paper and the other from the well-known English language daily. (There was no separate obituary in either paper.) The information is similar, but not identical. One is clearly a family memorial to a loved one, placed in the paper by the family. The other is a helpful, but perfunctory piece of information about funeral arrangements, and may be adequate for data collectors.