Milwaukee, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1912 (Polk, 1912), vol. 2. archive.org, milwaukeewiscons02unse. https://archive.org/details/milwaukeewiscons02unse.
How this was read Read by software from photographs of the pages. No one has checked it against the pages yet.
Who this document names
Names 2 people on 1 scan page; none has a record here yet.
- Whitcomb scan page 753, line 82
- Whitcomb scan page 753, line 82
Record details
One leaf only (n753), the single verified alphabetical hit in this part, machine-transcribed; no page image has been read by a person and no printed folio has been confirmed against it. This is not a reading of the Milwaukee trade: the classified section is not in part 2 and is expected in vol. 1 (milwaukeewiscons01unse), which has not been located or fetched. archive.org records the publisher only as "Polk" and gives no place of publication; neither is expanded here, because the title page has not been read. Rights, verbatim from the fetch record: status "public domain", basis "1912 United States publication." The directory was issued in two parts; archive.org labels this item "Pt. 2".
- Kind
- Trade directory or catalogue
- Evidence grade
- Primary
- Title
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1912
- Publisher
- Polk
- Date
- 1912
- Volume
- 2
- Repository
- archive.org
- Identifier
- milwaukeewiscons02unse
What rests on this source
- Whitcomb draft
Everyone this source names
This document prints 1 names. A name found this way is the weakest thing this site records: the book names the person, and nothing more is said. It is not a line in a record — the lines that actually rest on this source are listed above, each with its own confidence. 0 of the names below reach a record on this site; lines from this source have been written for 0. The rest are names and nothing else — which is an honest description of the evidence, and an invitation: if you know one of these makers, we want to hear from you.
- Whitcomb scan page 753, line 82 mention only — no record here yet
violin maker and dealer 126½ Sycamore h 211 Auer av — trade term as printed: "violin maker" — surname inherited from the headword at line 81: "WHITCOMB WALLACE B" — from OCR (read_as: ocr)
7 page images held
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Corrections
3 corrections have been made to what this record says. They are kept here so a reader can see that a line was wrong, when it was caught, and why it changed. Only a change to what the record says is logged — rewording a warning, restating how a document was read, or reflowing a paragraph is not a correction and does not appear.
line corrected Places and dates of work
It said Aas Anton violin mkr 503 Cedar — trade term as printed: "violin mkr" — from OCR (read_as: ocr)
It now says Aas Anton violin mkr 503 Cedar
Why No reason was recorded with this change.
line corrected Places and dates of work
It said " Anton violin mnfr 518 Cedar av r same — trade term as printed: "violin mnfr" — surname inherited from the headword at line 77: "Aas Alfred P car opr rms 3241 22d av S" — from OCR (read_as: ocr)
It now says " Anton violin mnfr 518 Cedar av r same
Why No reason was recorded with this change.
line corrected Places and dates of work
It said " Anton violin mnfr 518 Cedar av rms same — trade term as printed: "violin mnfr" — surname inherited from the headword at line 98: "Aas Alfred P car opr rms 2011 S 4th" — from OCR (read_as: ocr)
It now says " Anton violin mnfr 518 Cedar av rms same
Why No reason was recorded with this change.