Milwaukee: “Feeds and Supplies the World”
This poster hung in my grandparents’ house when I was a child. It’s still very common to see it in businesses and restaurants. You can buy them here.
(via geneticsimilarity)
Historical map of Milwaukee. Notice the big sailing vessels on the River.
(via fuckyeahcartography)
Amazing video of the Milwaukee flood with corresponding Google map and Streetview. This is Oakland Avenue on the east side of the city, near UWM.
Eric Fischer: “I was astounded by Bill Rankin’s map of Chicago’s racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, and Orange is Hispanic, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000.”
An old aerial view of Milwaukee. The grid pattern east of the river is interesting; I wonder when it was changed. Compare to today.
