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| Date: | 08 18 1987 |
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| Description: | At a Hartford antique show, a man looks over a well-maintained Model T Ford. In the background other people inspect more vintage automobiles. |
| Date: | 03 29 1933 |
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| Description: | "The old wood train." It is a class H3 train built in 1880 by Manchester Locomotive Works. John Rhine, the engineer, is shown. A large group of men are sta... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of unpaved Main Street, with horse-drawn vehicles along the curbs. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of Holy Hill, with a field and the Hillside Hotel in the foreground. Captions read: "America's Favorite Place of Pilgrimage" and "The Holy Hill and Hi... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view towards the right side of Main Street. Caption reads: "Main Street, East Side, Hartford, Wis." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers leaving the Kissell Motor Car Company have their identification badges checked. The Hartford company was then building trucks of the Four Wheel Dr... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Trucks of the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville manufactured at the Kissel Motor Car Company plant in Hartford during World War I, thus uniting in o... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Advertisement from "Motor Age" magazine for the new White Eagle Speedster manufactured by the Kissel Motor Car Company of Hartford, Wisconsin. With 115 ho... |
| Date: | 08 07 1929 |
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| Description: | A line of fifty "Bradford Cabs" manufactured by the Kissel Motor Car Company of Hartford, Wisconsin. Caption reads: "'Bradford Cabs' built by the Kissel Mo... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Three uniformed police officers stand beside two parked International trucks marked "Mercer & Dunbar Inc. Armored Car Service." A large building is in the ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | An International D-300 truck owned by P. Hansling & Son Hartford Forestry Company Tree Surgeons is parked in the drive of a home with a large chimney. A ma... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Park's landscaped park, including pond and footbridge. Two people sit on a bench in the shade on the right. The original caption describes the pa... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | An advertisement for the Kissel Custom Built Car published in the June, 1927 issue of the "Wisconsin Motorist" magazine, page 13. The company was the Kisse... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the Kissel Motor Car Company. The elevated view shows the factory buildings, water towers, railroad cars and track. A dirigib... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Site of Libby McNeil and Libby canning company. In 1968, workers in Hartford staged a walkout to support Obreros Unidos (United Workers) to show dissatisfa... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm worke... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down at a large crowd of people gathered at the depot to see off Company D of the 5th Wisconsin Infantry leaving Hartford for Camp Do... |
| Date: | 08 17 1917 |
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| Description: | Large crowd of people gathered at the train station to see off Company D of the 5th Wisconsin National Guard Infantry. The soldiers, some leaning out of th... |
| Date: | 07 1918 |
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| Description: | Young girls costumed as Red Cross nurses for a parade, with a small wagon drawn by a pet dog decorated as a field “ambulance.” |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a fleet of Internationals delivered in the spring to Post Office Department. |
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