Henry and Elizabeth Baird of Green Bay, Wisconsin led relief efforts to aid victims of the Peshtigo Fire in 1871. Donations came in from across the country. This letter to Elizabeth Baird lists some of the clothing collected for survivors by a group of women in Stamford, Connecticut.
via: Henry and Elizabeth Baird Collection, Wisconsin Historical Society
Source: content.wisconsinhistory.org
Tell everyone who inquires after us that we think the country will prove very agreeable to us. We are only sorry that we did not come earlier, but “better late than never.” The land in general is exceptionally good, and although thousands come here the country is so immense that there is yet plenty of Government land.
John and Margaret Owen, Baraboo, Wisconsin, 1847. Letter home to family members in Wales.
via: “Documents: Immigrant Letters,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 13:4 (1930)
Source: content.wisconsinhistory.org
Travel arrangements for Carolyn King from Europe back to the United States, 1900.
Before high speed jets, Travelocity and Orbitz, Americans heading across the Atlantic booked passage on steamships by letter or telegram. This letter from New York travel agency Oelrichs and Co. to Charles King in Milwaukee discusses travel arrangements for King’s daughter, Carolyn King, on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II. Carolyn King studied at the Sorbonne in Paris for several years before returning to Milwaukee in 1900.
via: Rufus and Charles King Collection, Carroll University
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The Milwaukee Brewhouse, part of the original Pabst campus, built in 1892.
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