UW-Milwaukee Milwaukee Urban Observatory records, 1965-1983.

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UW-Milwaukee Milwaukee Urban Observatory records, 1965-1983.

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Description: The Milwaukee Urban Observatory (MUO) was designed to be a research center for urban studies. The records of this collection contain correspondence, memos, and minutes about day to day operations of the MUO as well as a variety of reports detailing urban problems and possible solutions. A sampling of topics included in these reports are freeway impact, taxes, elderly housing, property values, the university's impact on the surrounding community, and racial divisions. Also included are copies of the "Urban Observer," a publication of the MUO, and correspondence between Milwaukee Mayor Henry Maier's Office and the MUO. Finding aid available in the Archives.

3.2 cubic ft.

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7371706

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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The WPA + 35 Exhibition, January 4-30, 1970, presented by the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee was a tribute to the crafts and quality of design which came of the Milwaukee Handicraft Project. The Project began in the Fall of 1935. It was one of the more unusual and diverse of the handicraft projects in its philosophy and its goals. Its "Project 1170" was a specially created project for women who needed work, interested in becoming self-supporting. Milwaukee County and...

Maier, Henry W., 1918-1994

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University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee. Milwaukee Urban Observatory.

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