Wisconsin Tower

Assembling Milwaukee's Christmas tree, 1935. From the Lyle Oberwise negative collection. For years Milwaukee would erect a sixty-foot-high Christmas “tree” on the Court of Honor on W. Wisconsin Avenue. The "tree" consisted of a pole with pine branches harvested from hundreds of live trees. In this photograph you can see the scaffolding that was built to install the branches on the pole.
Have a joyful holiday!