Summary Information
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce Records
1870-1964
- Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (Wis.)
Milwaukee Mss 14
3.0 c.f. (3 record center cartons)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)
Records of the Association and its predecessors, the Merchants Association, the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, and the Milwaukee Association of Commerce, documenting their efforts to support the city's economic welfare and the development of commercial and civic enterprises. Included are minutes of the board of directors and various committees concerning activities such as endorsing political candidates, tax revision efforts, anti-shoplifting campaigns, youth job programs, support for professional sports, and work in the areas of energy, transportation, and school desegregation.
English
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Biography/History
The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce had its origins in the Merchants Association of Commerce, founded in 1861 to safeguard and promote the economic advancement and welfare of commercial and civic enterprises in Milwaukee. The Merchants Association was designated as a clearinghouse for various problems, while encouraging the moral and educational progress of the community. In May 1894 the Association merged with the Manufacturers Club to form the Merchants and Manufacturers Association. A further name change to the Milwaukee Association of Commerce was followed by the recent adoption of the current name.
Today the MMAC continues to promote and organize a variety of projects, many of which follow traditional lines. Several committees encourage economic development of the community, communicate with state legislators, endorse and support political candidates, and attempt to revise current tax structures for the benefit of business. Other Association work includes the areas of energy, school desegregation, anti-shoplifting campaigns, transportation (both bus and car-ferry service), youth jobs programs, and support of Milwaukee's professional sports teams. Each year the Association sponsors the downtown Christmas parade.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists exclusively of minutes of meetings of various bodies and supplementary material and reports presented at those meetings. The major portion is an extensive and complete run of minutes of board of directors meetings, 1915-1964. Scattered throughout the files are minutes of the executive committee, with occasional minutes of the finance and other committees and of general membership meetings. The minutes illustrate the history of the Association, list its officers and members, document its projects, programs, and the major issues which affected and interested the membership, and note changes in its activities throughout the years.
Minutes dating prior to 1915 were destroyed by the Association prior to transfer of the remainder to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Related Material
Correspondence and other records of the Association are held by the Milwaukee County Historical Society.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, via Gordon Lewis, Milwaukee, Wis., 1976. Accession Number: M76-25
Processed by Menzi Behrnd-Klodt and Thomas Reitz, November 1980.
Contents List
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Box
1
Volume
1
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1915 April-1918 June
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Box
1
Volume
2
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1918 July-1921 April
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Box
1
Volume
3
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1921 May-1924 November
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Box
1
Volume
4
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1924 December-1928 June
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Box
1
Volume
5
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1928 July-1930 November
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Box
1
Folder
1-5
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1928-1935
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Box
2
Folder
1-14
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1936-1949
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Box
3
Folder
1-15
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1950-1964
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