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Property Record

5506-5522 W GRANT ST

Community: West Allis
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Milwaukee Wholesale Cleaners
Reference Number: 145089
Property Record

800 S 71ST ST

Community: West Allis
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: MILWAUKEE METAL STAMPING
Reference Number: 9055
Property Record

1527 S 84TH ST

Community: West Allis
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Milwaukee Light, Heat and Traction Co.
Reference Number: 9190
Photograph

Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad Passenger Depot

Date: 1910
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad passenger depot. The village of Allis is now part of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and is called West Allis.
Photograph

Baseball Exhibit

Date: 08 1953
Description: Fairgoers viewing a special exhibit of Milwaukee Braves memorabilia. This was the first season during which the Braves played in Milwaukee.
National or State Registers Record

Located between South 72nd Street and South 16th Street in Milwaukee and West Allis

Community: West Allis
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Kinnickinnic River Parkway
Reference Number: 11000462
Photograph

Auto Race at the Fair

Date: 1935
Description: Snapshot of preparations for an automobile race at the Milwaukee State Fair taken by Edward Maurer of La Crosse, an amateur photographer, from his seat in ...
National or State Registers Record

7440 West Greenfield Avenue

Community: West Allis
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: West Allis Post Office
Reference Number: 01000174
Property Record

GREENFIELD PARK GOLF COURSE - GREENFIELD PARK

Community: West Allis
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 205941
Photograph

Lost Child at the Fair

Date: 08 22 1949
Description: Margaret Mueller of Milwaukee, who had the distinction of being the first lost child at the Wisconsin State Fair. She is sitting in front of the sign that ...
Photograph

Country Boy and City Boy

Date: 
Description: The country meets the city as a "Milwaukee Journal" newsboy admires the calf entered in the animal judging competition by a young boy from the country.
Postcard

Milwaukee Flying School

Date: 1912
Description: An unidentified student among a group of men getting a lesson in a Curtiss plane at Rudolph Silverston's Milwaukee School and College of Aviation. Caption ...
Property Record

8501 LINCOLN AVE

Community: West Allis
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 145162
Photograph

Airplane Coverage of the Milwaukee Grand Prize Race

Date: 10 05 1912
Description: Photojournalist Fred Wagner covered the 1912 Milwaukee Grand Prize automobile race (later called the American Grand Prix) from Farnum Fish's airplane. The ...
Property Record

1337 S 100TH ST

Community: West Allis
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Good Shepherd's Evangelical Lutheran School
Reference Number: 145782
Photograph

The Milwaukee Mile Racetrack

Date: 1951
Description: A photographer stands close to the Milwaukee Mile racetrack with camera poised to capture the action as the stock cars competing in the race speed by him. ...
Photograph

West Allis Streetcar

Date: 05 1948
Description: A street car on Milwaukee Electric's 35th Street line. Flags decorate the street poles for Memorial Day.
Property Record

1414 S 93rd ST

Community: West Allis
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: St. Aloysius Catholic Rectory
Reference Number: 143622
Photograph

Old Timers Day at the Fair

Date: 1938
Description: The Old Timers Club of Milwaukee waves for a motion picture being made at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Photograph

Jack McGrath

Date: 1954
Description: Jack McGrath, an Indianapolis 500 driver, photographed at the Milwaukee State Fair, with his cream colored Hinkle Special. McGrath died in an automobile cr...

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