Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Detour sign posted by the Wisconsin Highway Commission, the predecessor of the Department of Transportation, in Manitowoc showing a confusing detour route ... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Loganville Road in Sauk County taken by the Wisconsin Good Roads Association. The photograph was meant to create a contrast between the new improved road ... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Island Park, from Washington Park Drive, looking north from the west end of Kinzie Avenue bridge. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Island Park, looking south from the east end of Kinzie Avenue bridge. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Dump trucks and steam shovel of the S.P. Croft Company, a road contractor from Milwaukee, at work at an unidentified Wisconsin site. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | A state highway patrolman at work on a dirt road somewhere in Eau Claire County demonstrates how the grader was adjusted for sloped shoulders. At the time... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Workers and inspectors of a mechanized concrete pour somewhere in Milwaukee County. By 1920 Milwaukee was famous for its 18-foot wide concrete roads, the c... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Elevated view of town. There is an unusual automobile parking pattern in the center of State Street. There is a sign for "Billiards" on a building in the r... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Front cover of the Oshkosh 4-Wheel Drive Motor Truck catalog. Oshkosh Truck Corporation was founded in Oshkosh in 1917. Still headquartered in Oshkosh, t... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Washington County highway worker filling a Kissel-built truck with gravel and crushed rock. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Closed truck manufactured by the Stoughton Wagon Company. This company's beginning as a manufacturer of wagons was a common origin for automobile manufact... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Advanced, horse-drawn road grader in action. Here, excess dirt moves up a conveyor belt and is dumped in a wagon next to the grader. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | View from shoreline of toll bridge under construction. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Ole Heg store, once also the home of Elias Stangeland (sp?). The original building was of log construction which was later boarded over. There is a woman s... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Equitable Fraternal Union, home office building. Caption reads: "Home Office Building, Equitable Fraternal Union, Neenah, Wis." |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Exterior of Presbyterian Church. Caption reads: "Presbyterian Church, Neenah, Wis." |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | View across water towards an excursion boat moored at the shoreline of Riverside Park. There are houses beyond, and in the distance is a smokestack. Captio... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | View down center of street, with dwellings along each side\. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Exterior of warehouse, which was formerly a five story grain elevator. This building stood downstream from the Diamond Jo warehouse. A section of the Missi... |
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