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Wausau / Clothing, Apparel & Fashion / Related Stories / Everyday Life / Marathon County / A Hudson's Bay Company Point Blanket Coat / 1918-1945 / Region 4 - Center

Emelie Manthei’s Point Blanket Coat

When the Great Depression hit Wausau in the 1930s, Emelie Manthei (now Emelie Borth) was a high school student from a working-class family. Her father lost his job before finding employment with the Works Progress Administration (WPA), where he helped construct the…

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February 1, 2018

Education / Related Stories / Door County / 1945-1965 / Society & Religion / Region 5 - Center East / Door County Bookmobile

Creating the Door County Bookmobile

Door County Library Bookmobile service began in 1950 through a Wisconsin Free Library Commission experiment called the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library Demonstration. The Demonstration was developed to explore the possibilities of providing library service to remote areas of the state. This was during a nationwide movement to…

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November 1, 2017

Superior / Industry / Maritime Industry / Related Stories / Douglas County / 1877-1900 / 1900-1918 / Manufacturing & Trade / 1918-1945 / Region 1 - North West / Transportation & Tourism / The SS Meteor

Great Lakes Shipping and the SS Meteor

The SS Meteor sailed the lakes longer than most ships of her day, and in her many reincarnations she offers a portrait of how some of the industries on the Great Lakes changed – and what those changes meant for Wisconsin.  Launched in 1896,…

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October 1, 2017

Superior / Industry / Maritime Industry / Related Stories / Douglas County / 1877-1900 / Manufacturing & Trade / Region 1 - North West / Transportation & Tourism / The SS Meteor

The American Steel Barge Company

Duluth, MN and Superior, WI face each other across the Saint Louis Bay. In the mid-nineteenth century, as grain harvests of the northern plains expanded, logging grew, and as iron and copper mining developed in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula, shipping…

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October 1, 2017

Agriculture / Oconto / Industry / Related Stories / Ethnicity & Identity / Global Connections / Manufacturing & Trade / 1918-1945 / Oconto County / Region 2 - North East / 1945-1965 / 1965-1987 / Migrant Worker's Cabin

Migrant Workers and the Bond Pickle Company

The Bond Pickle Company of Oconto, Wisconsin was founded in 1915 by five brothers. The Bond brothers quickly developed the firm, by 1917 acquiring 10 “salting stations” where the cucumbers were received from local farmers and a processing factory on West Main Street in…

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September 1, 2017

Agriculture / Oconto / Related Stories / Ethnicity & Identity / Global Connections / Manufacturing & Trade / Oconto County / Politics & Government / 1945-1965 / Region 2 - North East / Society & Religion / 1965-1987 / Migrant Worker's Cabin

Wisconsin’s Migrant Housing Laws

Before World War II, most of the migrant workers in Wisconsin’s pickle fields were single young men, and pickle companies provided housing for workers in large dormitories. After World War II, however, farmers began to hire more families to harvest pickles in…

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September 1, 2017