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| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Standard Oil Company constructed this brick super-service station in 1930 at 101 North Franklin Street. Its Spanish Colonial-style details include decorati... |
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| Description: | Elevated view over a freight train of the Nutrena Feeds factory. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Union veterans, some holding a banner reading "Iron Brigade," marching on a downtown street in a parade during a state encampment. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Right side view of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 632. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Left side view of the locomotive engine no. 2872, a steam locomotive of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Champion Buckle of Janesville, Wisconsin, a buckle manufacturer, with an image of leather strapping fastened with a buckle. Various buckles a... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Samson nine-passenger automobile featuring a photograph of men and women sitting in the car. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Parker Pen Company, with a three-quarter view of the company building, with people walking on the sidewalk, and a streetcar, automobiles,... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Map covers area between the cities of Janesville and Kenosha in Rock, Walworth, and Kenosha counties for railroad routes. Lakes and counties are labelled. ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Small group of elderly men, two of them bearing, respectively, a U.S. Flag, and a banner, perhaps a company roster. This may be a group of Civil War vetera... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | George S. Parker and family seated in their car, one of the first automobiles in Janesville. Behind them is a couple in another car. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Map showing a plat of the city, land ownership by name, wards by number, local streets, buildings, fair grounds, nurseries, and part of Rock River. The map... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | This map shows a plat of city, a numbering system, local streets, railroads, and part of the Rock River. The map is indexed by street name and reads: "Copy... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | This map shows landownership and acreages, lot and block numbers, roads and railroads, marshes, schools, churches, mills, rural buildings, and quarries. Re... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | This map includes an index of streets and schools, and shows parks and public lands, as well as industrial sites. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | This map includes an index of streets and schools and also shows parks, schools and public lands, and industrial sites. Portions of the map are in green an... |
| Date: | 02 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Ninety-two foreign students attending the U.W., Beloit, and Milton Colleges representing 35 countries took buses to Janesville where they were guests of th... |
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| Description: | View from across unpaved street of four men with horse-drawn hearses lined up in front of an undertaking building. The other storefronts are a stable on th... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | This map of Janesville was distrusted by the Fifield Lumber Company and features labeled streets, the Rock River, and Fifield Lumber Company buildings in r... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Rock River Cotton Company, with an elevated three-quarter view of the company building on the left, and a branch of the cotton plant with b... |
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