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Traveling Medicine Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic.
Photograph

Pioneer Drug Store

Date: 1905
Description: View from street towards people standing outside the entrance to the Pioneer Drug and Economy Store. Caption reads: "Pioneer Economy Stores, Evansville, Wi...
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Civil Air Patrol Volunteer

Date: 1943
Description: Jesse C. Brabazon, a pioneer aviator from Delavan, Wisconsin, in his uniform as a member of the Milwaukee Wing of the Civil Air Patrol during World War II.
Photograph

Model Builders

Date: 1934
Description: The members of Hangar 13, a group of Beloit youth organized to build and race model airplanes. Conrad Hansen, their organizer, is standing at left in the b...
Photograph

Model Builders' Reunion

Date: 1984
Description: A reunion of former members of Hangar 13, an organization of Beloit boys that built and raced model airplanes during the 1930s.
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Warner and his Factory

Date: 1910
Description: Arthur Pratt Warner, Wisconsin's first aviator, in front of the office of the Warner Instrument Company in Beloit. Warner, who held the patent for an autom...
Postcard

Beloit Railway Depot

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized view of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Depot at Beloit. Caption reads: "C. & N. W. Depot, Beloit, Wis."
Postcard

Fairbanks-Morse & Company in Beloit

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized image of the Fairbanks-Morse & Company buildings.
Photograph

East Grand Avenue

Date: 1910
Description: View down East Grand Avenue of the business district with a shoe business at the end of the street and the Hilton Hotel to the left.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Milton Junction. Rock Co. Wis.

Date: 1881
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milton Junction.
Photograph

George W. Hall, Jr., Circus Performer

Date: 1868
Description: George W. Hall, Jr., noted Evansville, Wisconsin, circus performer, as a young boy, holding a snake and wearing copper-toed boots.
Photograph

Cooksville Cornhuskers Baseball Team

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of Cooksville Cornhuskers baseball team in front of a painted backdrop. Top left to right: Unknown, Johnny Sweeney, Tim McCarthy(?), Charle...
Photograph

Andrews House

Date: 1954
Description: View of the Andrews house, the birthplace and home of Roy Chapman Andrews.
Photograph

Bartlett Memorial Historical Museum

Date: 1962
Description: View of a car in the open doorway of a barn at the Bartlett Memorial Historical Museum.
Photograph

Bartlett Memorial Historical Museum Sign

Date: 1962
Description: Entrance marker to the museum.
Photograph

Bartlett Memorial Historical Museum

Date: 1962
Description: Exterior of the museum, with a pine tree to the left, partially obstructing the building, and a path to the right.
Photograph

Bartlett Memorial Historical Museum Grounds

Date: 1962
Description: Exterior view of the museum, with the museum annex on the left.
Photograph

Beloit College Campus Path

Date: 1930
Description: View from street towards a walking path through the woods, with people strolling on the pathway.
Postcard

Beloit College Entrance and Memorial Hall

Date: 1905
Description: Stone entrance gate to Beloit College, facing Memorial Hall. Caption reads: "Entrance to College Grounds and Memorial Hall, Beloit, Wis."
Postcard

Beloit College: Emerson Hall

Date: 1910
Description: View of Emerson Hall, with trees and a lawn in the foreground.

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