Series: 1: Correspondence, 1878-1956
Scope and Content Note: Materials contained in the Correspondence Series deal with day-to-day duties, issues, and operations of this City Department. This correspondence includes some department specific personnel records as well as memos, letters, reports, forms, and requisitions – both to and from individuals, companies, suppliers/vendors as well as other city, state, and federal government departments of the United States and foreign countries. A list is provided in the Appendix of some of the topics covered; however the list should not be considered exhaustive.

Correspondence, Estimates, and Reports

includes index, 1878-September 1887

includes index, September 1887-September 1895

includes index, May 1895-August 1902

includes index, August 1902-March 1906

includes index, March 1906-June 1908

includes index, June 1908-July 1909

includes index, July 1909-December 1910

includes index, December 1910-January 1912

includes index, 1912

includes index, 1913

includes index, 1914-1915

index located in box 11 folder 1, 1916-1918

index located in box 11 folder 1, 1919

index located in box 11 folder 1, 1920-1921

partial index located in box 13 folder 3, 1922-1924

1925-June 1927

July 1927-1928

1929-1930

1931-1932

1933-1935

1936-1937

1938-1939

1940

January 1941-July 1941

August 1941-April 1942

May 1942-December 1942

1943

1944

1945

January 1946-August 1946

September 1946-March 1947

April 1947-October 1947

November 1947-July 1948

August 1948-February 1949

March 1949-August 1949

September 1949-March 1950

April 1950-October 1950

November 1950-May 1951

June 1951-December 1951

January 1952-July 1952

August 1952-March 1953

April 1953-September 1953

October 1953-March 1954

April 1954-September 1954

October 1954-March 1955

April 1955-August 1955

September 1955-December 1955

Flushing Stations, includes index, 1914-1923

Linnwood Avenue Tunnel and Riverside Pumping Station, includes index, 1919-1923

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1897-1956

Series: 2: Drawings and Sketches, 1871-1980
Scope and Content Note: This series contains various maps, drawings, plans, sketches, and surveys related to annexation, designs, and other City Engineer business.

6th Ave. Swing Bridge, includes Cherry, Pleasant, Becher, and Lincoln Ave. Machinery Assemblies, plans (some are copies), 1919-1927, undated

11th St. Swing Bridge, plans and historical report, 1930-1985

Ambulance, body design, 3 drawings, 1925-1928

Bridge Information Sheets, 1871-1910, undated

Bureau of Bridges and Public Buildings, East Lincoln Avenue Viaduct over C. & N. W. RR tracks by S. Bay St., 19 drawings, 1955-1956

City of Cudahy, detachment sketch, 1954

City of Glendale, annexation sketches and drawing, 1952-1958

City of Greenfield, annexation and detachment sketches and drawings, 1951-1958

City of West Allis, annexation and detachment sketches and drawings, 1951-1958

Division Engineer’s Car, body design, 10 drawings, 1923-1928

Henry Mann Subdivision Lot Plan, 1950

Lake Shore Development Progress Map, including Brief Summary City of Milwaukee Lake Front, 1935

Municipal Equipment Service Truck, body design, 2 drawings, 1928

P.J. Trowbridge Factory Sites, survey notes and maps for Northwest ¼ of Section 1, City of West Milwaukee, 7 maps, drawings, and assorted written documents, 1916

Police Patrol Car, body design, 4 drawings, 1924-1925

Property to be Acquired for Street Purposes, Aldermanic District No. 2: N. 6th St. from W. Juneau Ave. to W. Walnut St., 6 drawings, 1962

Seal of the City of Milwaukee, W.P.A. project, 1943

Storm Water Drainage Plans of Systems, 208 drawings, 1980

Town of Granville, annexation sketches and drawings, 1952-1956

Town of Lake, annexation sketches, 1951-1954

Town of Oak Creek, annexation drawings, 1955

Town of Wauwatosa, annexation sketches and drawings, 1951-1957

Village of West Milwaukee, annexation sketch, 1951

Village of Whitefish Bay, detachment drawing, 1959

Wisconsin Lakes Ice and Cartage Company, survey notes and maps for Northwest ¼ of Section 1, City of Greenfield, includes maps, drawings, and assorted written documents, 1916

Series: 3: General Files, 1892-1989
Scope and Content Note: The General Files contain annual reports (some years are missing) as well as other miscellaneous reports. The Cost Estimate Calculations are figures and calculations used in arriving at an approximate estimate of cost for street projects. There is also a quarter section atlas of the City of Milwaukee and its surrounding environs; an index is in the front of each volume.

Annual Reports

1892-1893, 1921-1933

1907-1911

1934-1940

1941-1950

1951-1957

1958-1961

1962-1965

1966-1969

1970-1974

1975-1982

1983-1989

Cost Estimate Calculations, widening Eleventh Ave., 1926

Cost Estimate Calculations, widening Sixteenth St., 1927

Cost Estimate Calculations, widening Sixth St. (Wisconsin to Michigan?), 1927

Engineers Society of Milwaukee, final report on Milwaukee River investigation, 1917

Harbor and Kinnickinnic River Improvements, approval from the U.S. Government, 1903-1911

Historical Mitigation Report Prepared for West Blue Mound Road Menomonee River Bridge, 1984

Installation Specifications for Water Mains, 1959

Manual of Storm Water Management Practices, 1993

Quarter Section Atlas, 1962

Post Office Site Study (Milwaukee Road site), 1962

Report on One-Way Streets, 1932

Report on Power and Heating Plant of the City Hall, 1937-1938

Report on Proposed City Hall Annex, 1953

Report on Riverside Station Renewal, 1965

Report on Safeguarding and Improving Milwaukee’s Water Supply with a Water Purification Plant, 1933

Report on Sewerage Service Charges, 1951

Riverside Station Renewal, supplementary report, 1966

Source Expenditure of State and Federal Highway Funds, 1940-1941

Vehicular Lane Capacity Studies, includes photographs, 1946