This collection contains the aldermanic records of Clifford A. Draeger. Included are
materials on Historic Buildings and Preservation of Buildings, which deal with
Historic Walker’s Point and the preservation of St. Jacobi Evangelical Lutheran
Church on Milwaukee’s South Side, as well as petitions from a 1974 struggle to
preserve public natatoriums in Milwaukee and some photographs of an area near the
harbor. The Housing files contain materials from the Department of Building
Inspections with regards to razing and removing buildings, general inspections, and
reports, assessments, and articles regarding Milwaukee metropolitan communities. The
Milwaukee Public Library items contain Board of Trustees correspondence regarding
meetings, memos, minutes, and reports from the Board. The Ordinances contain
correspondence, ordinances, dockets, and minutes from the Building Code Committee,
on which Alderman Draeger was a member. The Milwaukee Police Department files
contain reports on violent crimes in the City of Milwaukee, as well as
correspondence from concerned citizens and various government officials to Chief of
Police Harold A. Breier. The Roads and Transportation files contain correspondence
from various City departments related to Milwaukee’s expressways and aspects of
street widening, railways, vacation of structures, traffic lights, and street
maintenance and improvements. The Miscellaneous files contain a Bay View constituent
survey covering city services and taxes, freeway construction, and zoning and
preservation of the neighborhood, as well as miscellaneous ephemera.
