Series: 2. Public Life, 1909-1987
Scope and Content Note: This series consists of materials on Hoan's public and political life. The bulk of the material consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence during Hoan’s later years as mayor, as well as reports, speeches, and other mayoral business. There are also post-mayoral related items, such as campaign materials, gifts, programs, clippings, and awards and honors. There is a scrapbook at the end of the collection as well. Contents of the scrapbook consist of newspaper clippings, brochures and pamphlets.

Attorney, Workmen’s Compensation Bill, brief, 1909
Note: See also Box 1, Folder 8

Mayor

Book, City Government by Daniel Hoan (1936), promotional card, publisher’s invoice and royalty check, book review by Fiorello La Guardia, and complimentary letter by Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936-1952

Budget, 1938-1940

Campaign Literature, brochures, campaign mailing, 1918-1939

Certificates of Election, including as City Attorney and Board of Harbor Commissioners, 1910-1952

City Hall, watercolor painting, photo negatives, and history of City Hall bell, 1923, 1940

Cooperative Initiatives, brochures for Consumer Cooperative Association, prospectus of Garden Homes Company and description of its plan, 1920-1922

Correspondence

A, 1930-1940

Acknowledgments, 1938-1939

Advisory Council, 1935-1940

Aid, donation and fundraising projects, 1936-1940

Air Pollution, 1936-1940

American Negro Exposition, 1940

Appointments, political, 1934-1940

Art Institute, 1936-1940

Auditorium, 1936-1940

Aviation, 1936-1939

B, 1934-1939

Baby Bonds, 1933-1934

C, 1936-1939

Cherry St. Bridge, 1926-1939

City Attorney, 1936-1940

Citizens’ Housing Committee, 1939-1940

Christmas Tree, 1938-1940

City Engineer, 1936-1940

City Service Commission, 1937-1940

City Club, 1936-1940

Civic Celebrations, 1937-1939

Commissioner of Public Works, 1936-1940

Comptroller, 1936-1940

Conventions, 1936-1940

D, 1936-1939

F, 1936-1940

Filtration, 1933-1940

Finances, 1939

Fire Department, 1936-1940

Fire and Police Commission, 1936-1939

Governors (Philip LaFollette and Julius Heil), 1937-1939

G, 1936-1940

H, 1934-1940

Harbor Commission, 1935-1940

Health Department, 1936-1940

Housing, 1937-1940

House of Correction, also includes annual report for a Manhole Frame Surfacing Machine, 1935

Information (requests by public), 1937-1939

J, 1936-1940

K, also includes plans for a Manhole Frame Surfacing Machine, 1936-1938

Kline Law and Potential "Made Work" Projects, 1931

L, 1935-1940

M, 1916-1940

Milwaukee Association of Commerce, 1936-1940

Motion Pictures, 1936-1940

Municipal Heating, 1922-1938

N-O, 1936-1940

P, 1933-1940

Parking Meters, 1938

Permits, 1936-1940

Police, 1932-1940

President’s Ball (annual ball initiated by Franklin D. Roosevelt to raise money for infantile paralysis), 1936-1940

Purchasing, 1934-1940

R, 1936-1940

Receptions for Charles Lindberg, Stanley Hauser, and Douglas Corrigan, 1927-1938

Requisitions, 1937-1940

S, 1936-1940

Safety Commission, 1936-1940

Strikes, 1937-1940

T-V, 1936-1940

W, 1932-1940

Water Works, also contains brochure describing the Water Works, 1937-1939

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), 1936-1940

Educational Information, publications on various topics, 1918-1936

Election Ephemera, undated

Honorary Degree from the University of Wisconsin, letter of honor and newspaper photograph, 1939

Honoree, souvenir programs and testimonial letter, 1935

Inaugural Addresses, 1920-1928

Initiatives by Others, report about proposed soldiers’ and sailors’ memorial and resolution of declaration of trust by First Civic Foundation of Milwaukee, circa 1919-1923

Memberships and Honors, 1927-1939

Memberships and Honors, oversize, 1931-1935

Milwaukee Airport Report, 1925

Miscellaneous, includes Time magazine profile and various reports, 1919-1940

Passenger ship Milwaukee of Hamburg-American Line, 1929

Payroll, ledger for office, 1931

Portraits and Caricatures, 1922, undated

Proclamation, "Music Week", 1924

Report on the Proposed Service-At-Cost Contract Between Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. and City of Milwaukee, 1924

Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), miscellaneous projects, 1938

Newspaper Clippings, 1923-1987

Post-Mayor

Amlie, Thomas, Candidate for State Supreme Court (Hoan was secretary of Amlie’s personal campaign committee), 1949-1950

Anniversaries of Milwaukee, 1946-1949

Business and Political Correspondence, 1946-1960

Campaign for Congress, poster, 1948

Campaign for Governor, press release (second page is missing), 1946

Campaign for Senate, 1950

Commemorative Dinner, 1966

Cooperative and Collectivization Advocacy, circa 1942-1944

Daniel Webster Hoan Bridge, 1971-1987

Death, official memorials, letters of condolence, and clippings, 1961

Democratic Organizing Committee, Convention Dinner, speech, 1952

Eightieth Birthday Celebration, 1961

Fraternal Order of Eagles, Civic Service Award, plaque, 1954

Fraternal Order of Eagles, Eagle of the Year Award, plaque, 1958

Knife, gift from visit to Buenos Aires, 1953

Memberships and Honors, 1943-1961

Memberships and Honors, oversize, 1953-1959

St. Lawrence Seaway Improvements, newsletter, circa 1947

Wisconsin Democratic Party Convention, includes tribute to Hoan, 1956

Wisconsin Democratic Party Convention, plaque, 1956

Scrapbook, 1938-1952, undated
Physical Description: 1 volume