Milwaukee (Wis.), Mayor: records of the Emil Seidel administration, 1910-1912.

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Milwaukee (Wis.). Mayor. Milwaukee (Wis.), Mayor: records of the Emil Seidel administration, 1910-1912.

Milwaukee (Wis.), Mayor: records of the Emil Seidel administration, 1910-1912.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36115671

Description: Contains miscellaneous records of Seidel's term as mayor of Milwaukee. Includes correspondence and reports on the origin and development of the Child Welfare Association of Milwaukee; efforts to create a municipal or "People's" university in the city; plans for modernizing the harbor; and the controversy over Seidel's appointment of a Health Commissioner. Contains some preliminary plans for the University of Wisconsin's Institute of Municipal and Social Service; a personal memo from Judge Noyes stating his opposition to the building of a life-saving station on the lakefront. Also contains some of Seidel's speeches on labor, the breaking of trusts, police corruption, and his acceptance speech as the Socialist Party's 1912 vice-presidential candidate. Some of the correspondence in the collection is signed by Seidel's secretary, Carl Sandburg. Finding aid available in the Archives.

.4 cubic ft.

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries