As far back as 1862, Captain and Maria Pabst dressed in the
height of fashion for the holidays.

A GRAND AVENUE CHRISTMAS

The Pabst Mansion’s annual display of ornate holiday decorations is a perennial Milwaukee favorite. The exhibit will open Thursday, Nov. 11 with a champagne reception and preview of the displays. Tickets to the reception are $35. Call for reservations or visit the Web site, www.pabstmansion.com. The public is invited to capture annual holiday photos in the mansion’s Musicians’ Nook. A $5 donation per group is suggested. Tour the Pabst Mansion on weekends in December and enjoy live music. The mansion, located at 2000 W. Wisconsin Ave.,
will be bedecked through Jan. 9.

Photos courtesy of The Pabst Mansion



Captain Pabst’s children, Fred, Emma, Gustave, Marie, and Elizabeth,
posed for a family photo in the 1870s.

Emma Pabst, photographed in 1895

The Leaf family of the town of Summit had a successful deer hunt in 1911 at Conover. The women (from left) Mrs. W.G. Race, Julia Leaf, unidentified woman and Mary Denton took part in the hunt.




  In 1900, the Leaf family set up the Camp Cooney hunting camp.

The Leaf family emigrated from England and arrived in the town of Summit in 1851.

Photos courtesy of The Waukesha Freeman