Milwaukee County Historical Society

Collection Categories

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The Society’s collections categories are listed below. At present we have a limited number of sample artifacts available for viewing on this site. Those categories will have an active hyperlink to view artifacts within that collection. Click on the category to view a sampling of each. We will continue to add categories and post more samples of our collections.

Architecture

Civic

  • Police
  • Fire
  • Civil Defense
  • City of Milwaukee
  • Milwaukee County Government

Clocks & Watches

Dolls & Doll Houses

Decorative Arts

  • Glass
  • Ceramics
  • Silver
  • Other metals

Earthenware

Ethnology

Fashion

  • 1840
  • 1850
  • 1860
  • 1870
  • 1880
  • 1890
  • 1900
  • 1910
  • 1920
  • 1930
  • 1940
  • 1950
  • 1960
  • 1970
  • 1980

Firearms

Fine Art

  • Paintings
  • Sculpture
  • Sketches
  • Watercolors
  • Lithographs

Furniture

Holiday

Housewares

  • Appliances
  • Kitchen
  • Toilet Articles
  • Iron

Jewelry

Lighting

Marine

Measurement

Medical

Militaria

  • Uniforms
  • Accoutrement

Media Technology

  • Radios
  • Computers
  • VCR, DVD, etc.

Models

Music

Numismatics (Coins & Currency)

Pharmacy

Political

  • Socialist
  • Democrat
  • Republican
  • Other parties

Posters

Religious

Sewing

  • Machines
  • Accessories

Sport

  • Trophies
  • Equipment

Textile

Tool

  • Metal-Working
  • Wood-Working
  • Coopering
  • Shipwright
  • Stone-Work
  • Misc.

Toys

  • Games
  • Miniatures

Transportation

  • Railroad
  • Automobile
  • Bicycles

Weapons

  • Edged
  • Projectile

Writing Equipment