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Map or Atlas

Main Traveled Wisconsin Auto Roads Out of Madison Wisconsin: "The Four Lake City"

Date: 1916
Description: The map on the front shows roads from Madison to northern Illinois and as far north as St. Croix, Chippewa, Marathon, and Shawano counties. The map on the ...
Book or Pamphlet

International Bus Advertisement Featuring Folding Seats

Date: 1916
Description: Page from an International Motor Trucks catalog entitled "International Motor Trucks With Special Bodies for Bus and Transfer Service." Rear views highligh...
Photograph

"Sane Fourth" Parade

Date: 1916
Description: A Fourth of July parade on S. Carrol Street featuring decorated vehicles. Flags are hanging from the sides of commercial buildings.
Postcard

Power House; City Hall

Date: 1916
Description: View of the power house and city hall in Cedarburg. The power house has a smokestack and the city hall has a bell tower. Caption reads: "Power House; City ...
Postcard

Main Street, Looking North

Date: 1916
Description: View of the central business district of Fairwater. Horses and wagons and automobiles in the street. A hardware store is on the left. Two men are on the ri...
Postcard

Main Street South from 4th Avenue

Date: 1916
Description: View of Main Street lined with businesses, and street car tracks running down the center. Three dentist offices are on the left. Caption reads: "Main Stree...
Postcard

First and Main Streets, Looking North

Date: 1916
Description: View down middle of street towards the intersection of First and Main Streets. Automobiles, wagons and bicycles are on the street, and street lamps are alo...
Postcard

St. Agnes Hospital

Date: 1916
Description: View of St. Agnes Hospital with stained glass windows above the entrance and a bell tower.
Postcard

C. M. & St. P. Railway Station

Date: 1916
Description: Photographic postcard view of a train on the tracks, several people on the platform, a boy standing with a bicycle, and a horse and carriage parked behind ...
Postcard

Business District

Date: 1916
Description: Street scene of the central business district. Shops and businesses are on both sides of the street. A horse and buggy is in the distance. Caption reads: "...
Postcard

Birdseye View

Date: 1916
Description: View of Grafton from the road leading into town. There is a bridge over the river, and a church is on the far right. Caption reads: "Birdseye [sic] View, G...
Postcard

Dixon Hotel

Date: 1916
Description: Hand-colored postcard of the Dixon Hotel. A large sign is above the entrance, and a bar is in the basement. A car is parked at the curb on the right. Capti...
Photograph

Doc Copeland Repairing Canoe

Date: 1916
Description: Doc Copeland repairing a canoe after it had run onto a spike on the river.
Photograph

The Boys Go Swimming

Date: 1916
Description: Jack and Russell Greene go swimming in the lake after setting up camp. There is a canoe in the foreground.
Photograph

Fording the River

Date: 1916
Description: A driver of a horse-drawn wagon fords the Chippewa River.
Photograph

Birch Trees

Date: 1916
Description: A view down an old road through a forest of birch trees. The road is overgrown with plants.
Postcard

Fourth St. Looking South

Date: 1916
Description: View down street towards the central business district, with the city hall in the left foreground. Automobiles are parked along the curbs. Caption reads: "...
Postcard

St. Rose Convent

Date: 1916
Description: View across intersection towards a large convent. There is a brick wall along the sidewalk surrounding the convent. Caption reads: "St. Rose Convent, La C...
Postcard

Residence of Messrs. — C. & W. — A. — Engsberg

Date: 1916
Description: Photographic postcard view of two large Victorian homes behind trees. Caption reads: "Residence of Messrs. — C. & W. — A. — Engsberg, La...
Poster

Moo-che-we-in-es. Pale face, my skin is dark but my heart is white. For I also gave to Canadian Patriotic Fund

Date: 1916
Description: Poster depicts First Nations man holding a dollar bill and two coins in one hand and a letter in the other hand written in his language. A paper with the t...

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