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Things we found around the Museum


These pages are from issues of the Milwaukee Monthly Magazine dating to 1875 and 1876. The magazine featured articles, poems, stories, fashion pages, and advertisements. Several of these issues are marked "James Turner," who emigrated from England to America with his wife and children in the 1850's. James served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and afterward the family settled in Vernon County. This magazine, arriving in their pioneer home, must have been like a glimpse of another world. James died in 1901 and was buried at Brush Hollow Cemetery.


Milwaukee Magazine

Milwaukee Magazine
Milwaukee Magazine
Milwaukee Magazine
Milwaukee Magazine
Milwaukee Magazine
Milwaukee Magazine
Milwaukee Magazine
Milwaukee Magazine
Milwaukee Magazine
Milwaukee Magazine
Milwaukee Magazine

More Treasures:


1918 Graduates and alumni in WWI


Scrapbooks from the 1800's


WWI at Home


Spring Fashions


Rusk Scrapbook


Ambitions