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An Industrial Heritage book cover featuring black background and red industrial equipment

An Industrial Heritage: Allis-Chalmers Corporation

9780938076025
Learn about the Allis-Chalmers Company, its early history and the personalities that led the business through industrial, economic, and political cycles.
$17.95
Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee cover featuring painting of Byron.

Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee

9780938076155
Written by two Milwaukee County historians, Goodwin Berquist and Paul C. Bowers, Jr, this full-length biography of one of Milwaukee's founding fathers follows Byron Kilbourn from his boyhood home in Ohio to Wisconsin.
$14.95
Greater Milwaukee's Growing Pains book cover

Greater Milwaukee's Growing Pains, 1950-2000: An Insider's View

9780938076162
This book examines the historic trends and battles which shaped Milwaukee, including the boundary wars of the 1950s and lawsuits over the polluting of Lake Michigan.
$19.95
Joyworks cover featuring author Mike Cudahy dressed in red and white button down shirt with black jacket. In front of a sailboat on the dock.

Joyworks: The Story of Marquette Electronics and Two Lucky Entrepreneurs

9780938076179
The story of how Michael Cudahy and his friend and partner Warren Cozzens created Marquette Electronics, one of the miracles of modern business.
$19.95
Love and Other Letters book cover featuring two black and white photographs of individuals and different handwritten letters

Love and Other Letters

9780615379692
Nancy Oestreich Lurie found a shopping bag filled with letters from her mother's childhood, and they turned out to be historically enlightening and entertaining.
$14.95
Milwaukee at the Gathering of the Waters book cover in tan with picture of Milwaukee

Milwaukee at the Gathering of the Waters

9780938076063
A pictorial and entertaining commentary on the growth and development of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
$20.00
Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods Cover featuring four different groups of Milwaukee folks.

Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods

9780692451892
Based on the popular series of posters published by the City of Milwaukee in the 1980s, this book features both historical chronicles and contemporary portraits of 37 neighborhoods that emerged before World War II
$39.99
The Fisherfolk of Jones Island cover featuring black and white drawing

The Fisherfolk of Jones Island

9780938076094
Jones Island, originally a mile-long peninsula bordering on the Lake Michigan shoreline, has a long and fascinating history, including close ties to maritime industries and the rich ethnic heritage of Milwaukee.
$24.95
The Making of Milwaukee book cover featuring bold title and images of many different Milwaukee natives

The Making of Milwaukee

9780692138373
Renowned historian John Gurda chronicles the development of a community whose past has produced one of the most livable big cities in America and, at the same time, created some daunting social and economic problems. Thoroughly illustrated. Fourth edition.
$35.00
Useful Work for Unskilled Women book cover with various women making handcrafts

Useful Work for Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee WPA Project

9780938076186
Mary Kellogg Rice describes a unique Milwaukee project in the post-Depression years which trained thousands of unskilled, uneducated women in the production of a variety of handicrafts.
$24.95