Wisconsin 101

The Wisconsin Chair Company

Founded in 1888 by Frederick A. Dennett, the Wisconsin Chair Company (WCC) was perhaps the most important business in Ozaukee County at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. The company, located along the northern shore of the…

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February 16, 2014

Music, Theatre & Cinema / Related Stories / Ethnicity & Identity / 1900-1918 / 1918-1945 / Recital Poster

Raphael Baez

Raphael Baez, Sr. can be counted as one of the first Mexicans ever to call Milwaukee home. Born in Puebla, Mexico in 1863, Baez began his musical education at the age of nine. From the start, the youngster displayed a remarkable ability…

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October 15, 2013

Art, Sport & Entertainment / Music, Theatre & Cinema / Milwaukee / Milwaukee County / Object Histories / Ethnicity & Identity / 1900-1918 / Region 8 - South East / Recital Poster

OBJECT HISTORY: Piano and Song Recital Poster

Mr. Raphael Baez, a well-respected violinist, pianist, composer, and music professor, and his wife Mrs. Mary Schoen Baez, a noted vocalist, had performed together in various music halls in the city of Milwaukee since 1889. The Athenaeum, home of the Women’s Club of Wisconsin, had hosted Mr. Baez and his students throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth…

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October 15, 2013

Milwaukee / Milwaukee County / Ethnicity & Identity / Related Stories / 1900-1918 / 1918-1945 / Region 8 - South East / Recital Poster

Milwaukee’s Early Mexican Community

Milwaukee’s Mexican community began in 1920, when the Pfister and Vogel Tannery recruited a handful of men from the midwestern states of Mexico to work in their Menominee and Bay View plants on the city’s near south side. Unaware that they had been…

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October 15, 2013