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 (?!?).

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

Socialisticher Maennerchor celebrated 50 years in 1926!

When Milwaukee's Socialists weren't busy cleaning up the corruption of previous decades (after the 1910 Mayoral election), they were celebrating their history ... dating back to 1876?
The article includes their full concert program and names additional choral and orchestral groups from near and far that participated in the event.

More politically enlightening history can be found by clicking here:

Milwaukee's history of Socialist Mayors

Mrs. A. Sweckle shares a postcard ... Das Brautpaar in Potsdam.

Mrs. A. Sweckle, 1216 24 St. shared her postcard of German royal newlyweds with the local newspaper. For that gesture, Louise, (Mrs. Albert Sweckle) gets an entry in the index of Milwaukee's German language newspapers.

The wedding of Prince Ernst August of Cumberland and Princess Victoria Luise, only daughter of the Kaiser, is remarkable as it "ended the decades-long rift between the Houses of Hohenzollern and Hanover. The wedding of Prince Ernest Augustus and Princess Victoria Louise was also the last great gathering of European sovereigns before the outbreak of the Great War.".

The complicated story of the long rift between the Houses of Hohenzollern and Hanover is told here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Augustus,_Duke_of_Brunswick

Der neue israelische Tempel an der 5 Strasse ... Temple Beth Hazodol

Important new buildings and construction projects were featured in Milwaukee's German papers in the 19th century just as they are today in the digital news media. The new Temple Beth Hamedrosch Hazodol was located on the east side of N. 5th Street alongside the alley between W. Vliet and W. Cherry Streets.
There were at least 4 Jewish congregations in the downtown area in the 19th century.

Oesterreich-Ungarischer Gesangvereins, 1915-1925

The Austrian-Hungarian Chorus celebrated 10 years: 1915-1925. Members' names are included with the photo: Aschenbrenner, Braunscheck, Brill, Butschli, Feisthamel, Fillinger, Fink, Firle, Franz, Glass, Grimm, Heim, Henedahl, Herrenbroth, Katzenmeier, Kipper, Kleinmaus, Knebl, Koch, Kraft, Lorenz, Lotze, Lunova, Melter, Mulitsch, Ness, Rittner, Ruppert, Schasler, Schillhansl, Schmidt, Stark, Steiner, Uhlein, Uttenthaler, Witushek, Ziliz, Zolk

Milwaukee's Bock Bier festivals; a lost tradition?

You don't hear about an annual Bock Beer season in Milwaukee, although one celebration has apparently taken place for 38 years on the last Saturday of April for ... 38 years! (I'm not a beer drinker, so've never followed the event.)
It used to be that every tavern in town placed advertisements in the local German papers for their brew in late winter and into early spring. This advertisement for Best's Bierhalle special goat-brew dates from the 1850s.

More information can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock
https://shepherdexpress.com/events/bockbierfest-2018-38th-annual/