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Throwback with the beautiful @kyleaelizabethh because I miss you and dressing up and laughing till we cry and I miss you I miss you I miss you. ❤️ #throwback #babygirl #juicyj #milwaukee #iloveyou
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Cafe Centraal via Visit Milwaukee
Milwaukee via Matthew Tollander
Milwaukee Art Museum via Mirage Man
At the Brewers game, in SEAT 13 wearing my new Archer necklace that my hubs gave me for our anniversary early…And then they play Paper Rings…Good things happen in 3’s they say
Eschweiler Scrapbooks
While seeking out Decorative Sunday material this week, I came across several sets of scrapbooks from the prolific Milwaukee architectural firmEschweiler & Eschweiler. Some of the scrapbooks contain architectural postcards organized by theme (such as “details,” exemplified in images 2-4 from volume one of the six volume [Scrapbooks Containing Architectural Postcards]. Others contain a more random assortment of magazine clippings, postcards, and photographs, pasted into old catalogs of Thomas Maddock’s Sons Company of New Jersey and plumbing hardware from the J. L. Mott Iron Works company in New York (volumes one and two of Scrapbook of architectural photographs). While there are no clues to suggest who was responsible for assembling the scrapbooks, it’s possible they date to between 1966 and 1974, when the firm was known as Eschweiler, Schneider & Associates. See image captions for detailed descriptions.
Founded in 1892 by Alexander Eschweiler, later helmed by Alexander’s three sons, the firm had over 1,100 commissions in Milwaukee and beyond until the firm’s closing in 1975. The Eschweiler firm was known for their grounding in traditional style. Comparing Eschweiler with his more internationally famous contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright, the late UWM Architecture professor Douglas Ryhn purported that “there is no similarity in styles but it looks like they were inspired by the same feelings. Wright individualized, personalized architectural expression. Eschweiler took this integrity and used it with images that had already proven themselves.”
While many buildings from the firm have been demolished, there are over 80 extant buildings, including several of the luxurious East Side residences along Bradford Avenue, Newberry Boulevard, and Lake Drive, as well as the Milwaukee-Downer Quad (Holton, Merrill, Johnston and Greene Halls) on UWM’s campus (which command a large portion of the view from Special Collections). Other notable Eschweiler & Eschweiler buildings include the Wisconsin Gas Building, the Wisconsin Telephone Company, and Plymouth Church.
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-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern
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414 Day
Today’s date is 4/14, which is known around these parts as 414 DayorMilwaukee Day because 414 is the area code for the Milwaukee area! This year we’re celebrating with a series of walking tours of Milwaukee’s East, South, and West sides (shown here in that order) calledA Walk in the City.
These walking tours were published in 1981 by Libraries for Milwaukee, a group/program I can’t seem to find much information about, other than that they were awarded an NEH Grant in 1980/1981 “To support five programs on themes of interest to Milwaukee’s residents, especially working people, ethnic communities, and neighborhood groups. The project will include public forums, media presentations, neighborhood tours, and guides to library collections.”
Each walking tour provides line drawings of important or exemplary buildings along the route, explaining the history behind each. Buildings featured include the likes of Oriental Theater, Polish flats, and North Avenue taverns.
No matter what part of the city you’re from, there’s always a good walk waiting for you just outside your door!
View our previous 414 Day posts.
– Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
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We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Set in the United States during World War II, We Are Not Free by Traci Chee follows a group of American teens of Japanese descent. At first, life is pretty straightforward - the standard dramas of high school, the looming specter of adulthood on the horizon. Then, Japanese-Americans are removed from their homes, forced to leave most of their possessions behind, and relocated to camps. Inside the fence, life is different, but the teens are still teens: they love, they laugh, they dance, they fight, they play sports, they create, and they dream. Their circumstances initially bind them together, but everyone is unique, and eventually different ideas about how to respond to their internment threaten to drive everyone apart. Relocation, imprisonment, and even death are all distinct possibilities. College is one possible way out of the camp, for those who can convince the admissions office they are real Americans; another is the Army, which brings the dangers of fighting Nazis in Europe. Chee uses the voices of fourteen different teens to show many different perspectives, challenges, and circumstances, and weaving all those threads into one narrative highlights the power of community in the face of oppression.
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“Riots work. And I’ve never said it in that way before. But I’m an American because of that riot,” Killer Mike says, citing the Boston Tea Party. “So when people say riots don’t work: Ferguson was over 60 percent as a black community. They had less than 60 percent representation in politics, far less. Post-riots, they have two new black city council members, they have actual advocates in the community now, and the police chief retired. So if it was argued that riots worked for Ferguson, absolutely they did.”
-Killer Mike, from an interview with Rolling Stone, August 6, 2015
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“When nonviolence is preached as an attempt to evade the repercussions of political brutality, it betrays itself. When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. When nonviolence is preached by the representatives of the state, while the state doles out heaps of violence to its citizens, it reveals itself to be a con. And none of this can mean that rioting or violence is "correct” or “wise,” any more than a forest fire can be “correct” or “wise.” Wisdom isn’t the point tonight. Disrespect is. In this case, disrespect for the hollow law and failed order that so regularly disrespects the community.“
-Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Non-Violence as Compliance”
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Until you spread your wings you will have no idea how far you can fly.
Milwaukee Art Museum. 9/26/17
