1877-1900

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OBJECT HISTORY: The SS Meteor

The SS Meteor was launched as the SS Frank Rockefeller in Superior, Wisconsin by the American Steel Barge Company in 1896. The last remaining of only 44 “whaleback” ships ever built, she was designed by a Scottish immigrant named Alexander McDougall. She is 380 feet long, 45 feet wide and 26 feet deep. You may notice that the SS Meteor looks somewhat different…

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October 1, 2017

Broad History / Agriculture / Industry / Related Stories / Door County / 1848-1877 / 1877-1900 / 1900-1918 / Manufacturing & Trade / 1918-1945 / Nature & Environment / 1945-1965 / Region 5 - Center East / Transportation & Tourism / Cherryland T-Shirt

The Cherry Industry in Door County

While early European immigrants in Door County survived by subsistence farming, efforts in later years to grow cash crops proved challenging, due in large part to the area’s rocky landscape. Despite little success with traditional crops, Door County residents continued to look…

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July 1, 2017

Milwaukee / Education / Milwaukee County / Related Stories / Ethnicity & Identity / Global Connections / 1877-1900 / 1900-1918 / Society & Religion / Region 8 - South East / Settlement Cook Book

The Settlement House Movement

Mass immigration from eastern and southern Europe dramatically altered America’s ethnic and religious composition around the turn of the twentieth century. Unlike earlier immigrants, who had largely come from western European countries like Britain, Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia, the new immigrants came…

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May 1, 2017

Milwaukee / Milwaukee County / Ethnicity & Identity / Related Stories / Global Connections / 1877-1900 / 1900-1918 / Society & Religion / Region 8 - South East / Settlement Cook Book

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Black Kander

The first generation of women—largely white and middle- or upper-class—to graduate from college in large numbers left school full of promise and enthusiasm, but were largely denied employment in medicine, law, or business. Rejected by the professional world, many focused their energies…

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May 1, 2017

Milwaukee / Milwaukee County / Education / Ethnicity & Identity / Related Stories / Global Connections / 1877-1900 / Society & Religion / Region 8 - South East / Settlement Cook Book

Roots of Milwaukee’s Settlement House

By 1890, the majority of Milwaukee’s Russian and Polish Jews lived in the city’s Second Ward, also known as the Haymarket District. Lizzie Black Kander worked as a truancy officer from 1890 to 1893, which gave her a front-row view of conditions…

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May 1, 2017

Related Stories / 1877-1900 / Nature & Environment / Society & Religion / Transportation & Tourism / Sterling Safety Bicycle

Wisconsin Bicycle Tourism

M.C. Rotier, the publisher and editor of The Pneumatic, a Wisconsin periodical and trade journal dedicated to bicycles in the 1890s, called bicycling “the most independent, healthful, rapid, and convenient mode of travel” in the nineteenth century.[1] Rotier, a leading bicycle advocate…

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April 10, 2017