Pink Baby: Pamphlet, inkjet on dark blue Fabriano Ingres paper and Mohawk Superfine paper, 5 x 3.5 inches closed, 5 x 7 inches open, completed by artist Jenie Gao in 2010.
A photograph of two youth riding on ponies in an outdoor pen, taken at the Westmorland neighborhood Fourth of July celebration, in Madison, Wisconsin, ca. 1962.
Schultz children wear their costumes ahead of the Fourth of July parade in the Westmorland neighborhood in Madison, Wisconsin, ca. 1965. A bicycle is decorated with red, white, and blue bunting in the background.
List of orchestral and choir music to be performed at the 1935 Workmen’s Circle annual concert. The classical orchestra musicians were drawn from the Madison Symphony and the UW-Madison School of Music.
At the bottom of the page is a list of songs…
A hyperlink to the record for a geography master's thesis about collective memory and the historic preservation process at Garver Feed Mill. The thesis is written by Rebecca Summer and archived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A photograph of a youth baseball team. Eleven youth stand in two rows, wearing baseball uniforms and mitts. Kent Liska is in the 2nd row, 3rd from the left.
Sam Moss, whose grandparents Ida and Samuel Moskowsky operated the Milwaukee Bakery, displays the bell that once hung above the entry door to the family-owned shop.
Photo courtesy Daniel Einstein.
Sam Schwartz (center with shovel) participates in groundbreaking ceremony for a new medical center building at 20 S. Park Street. Although the Schwartz Pharmacy was demolished as part of the Triangle Redevelopment Project, he was able to re-locate…
Sam Schwartz (right) and Alex Swartz (left) sort through mail sent to the pharmacy by soldiers serving during WWII. The letters and postcards were then shared with the community who would stop by the store to learn first-hand news from the…
Sam Schwartz inside his pharmacy at 902 Mound St. in 1952. In addition to dispensing drugs the store sold a wide variety of goods, including clocks and cosmetics, as can be seen on the display shelves.
A photograph of the exterior of the Schultz family residence at 453 Clifden Drive, in the Westmorland neighborhood in Madison, Wisconsin. The house and yard are covered in snow.
Students from the Workmen’s Circle school assembled on the stage of the Labor Lyceum. At the center of the group is the school’s principal and only teacher, Philip Seigel. Students would be taught to: “read, write and speak the Yiddish language,…
Sylvia Dworetsky Grunes holds the program for the Workmen’s Circle School’s first annual performance in 1933. Sylvia, who was a seven-year-old student at the time of the performance, turned 97 in 2023.
The Milwaukee Bakery at 214 S. Murray Street was operated by the Moskowsky family from 1924-1952. The extended family lived in the apartment above the bakery. Each day the bakers prepared fresh breads on the wood fired hearth for sale all across the…
The Schwartz Pharmacy at the corner of South Park and Mound streets, around 1960, a few years before demolition as part of the urban renewal project. An addition to Meriter Hospital now occupies this site.
The Workmen’s Circle Labor Lyceum provided a community center for the immigrant Eastern European Jewish community in Madison. The Arbeiter Ring, as it was called in Yiddish (a language which combines Hebrew and German words), is a national…
Written response about this image: Seeing my children write letters and postcards to family and friends has been an unexpected blessing during this time. They cut right to the chase: I hate not seeing you. I can’t wait to hug you. I miss getting…
A photograph of (from left to right) Ulrich Sielaff, David Hamel, and Shelley Hamel taken during their oral history interview at the Garver Feed Mill on November 2, 2019.
A photograph shows the vacant lot where the Saeman family house would eventually be built, at 564 Gately Terrace in the Westmorland neighborhood of Madison, Wisconsin.
A photograph of the board members of the Westmorland Neighborhood Association. Ronny Saeman, president of the board, is seated at the table in the front row.