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Poster

Farmall Regular and 10-20 Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1927
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering tractors showing a Farmall Regular and a 10-20 tractor with descriptive text. Includes the text: "Power Farming is...
Poster

Deering Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster (Argentina)

Date: 1927
Description: South American advertising poster for Deering harvester-threshers (combines). Imprinted with "International Harvester Company Argentina; Bahia Blanca, Buen...
Photograph

Fox River

Date: 1927
Description: View down hill towards the Fox River from the Eleazer Williams home. A group of people are automobiles are near a road near the shoreline.
Photograph

Battle Hollow Sign

Date: 1927
Description: View of the Battle Hollow sign along an unpaved road. In the distance on the left is a rock formation covered with trees. Sign reads: "Battle Hollow Clack ...
Postcard

Elevated View of Main Street

Date: 1927
Description: Elevated view of Main Street with automobiles lining either side. An ice cream parlor is visible on the right side, as are a dry cleaning and tailoring bu...
Photograph

Phillip's House

Date: 1927
Description: Exterior view of home belonging to J.D. Phillip.
Photograph

Housekeeping Cottages at Cottage Grove Resort on Mason Lake

Date: 1927
Description: Two women pose outside their lakefront cabin.
Photograph

Bridge and Water Tower

Date: 1927
Description: View down middle of metal bridge across the Cornell Flowage. Across the lake, there is the pulpwood stacker on the left and a water tower on the right near...
Photograph

Boat Landing from State Highway 12

Date: 1927
Description: A man stands on a wooden dock near a tour boat. The sign on top of the boat advertises "Summer Homesites."
Photograph

Ro-Mi-Hoco Park

Date: 1927
Description: View from the dock looking at a beached canoe and two housing structures at Ro-Mi-Moco Park.
Photograph

Picnic Grounds in Olin Park

Date: 1927
Description: Picnic area of Olin Park, where a woman reads a newspaper on a park bench.
Photograph

Door County Beach

Date: 1927
Description: Rock outcroppings overhang a Door County beach.
Map or Atlas

Grant and Iowa Counties

Date: 1927
Description: A hand-drawn map outlining the counties of Grant and Iowa counties as they would have appeared in 1837.
Map or Atlas

Special Lake Region Map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Date: 1927
Description: This 1927 map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, cities and villages, roads, railroads, and lakes and streams.
Map or Atlas

Town of W Weston, Dunn County, Wisconsin

Date: 1927
Description: Shows section corners, landownership and acreages, roads, railroad, Weston village, and buildings of W.J. Starr Estate. Relief shown by hachures. "Map comp...
Map or Atlas

Street Railway Guide of Milwaukee and Suburbs Including Motor Bus Routes

Date: 1927
Description: Street railway and motor bus map with a legend of "Street Car Line," "Auxiliary Bus Lines," and "Motor Bus Lines." The routes are numbered. The map reads: ...
Photograph

Highway 33 on Wildcat Mountain

Date: 1927
Description: An automobile traveling up the dirt road to Wildcat Mountain. There is a guardrail along the road on the right.
Photograph

Indian Children and Tepee at Stand Rock "In the Dells"

Date: 1927
Description: A Native American boy and girl pose standing in front of a tipi on a hill by a lake. The tipi is covered with a fringed blanket.
Photograph

Dells Farm Resort

Date: 1927
Description: View across road of a large cottage with a front porch on the right, with two people sitting in a lawn chair in front. Down the hill on the left behind tre...
Photograph

Algerians Praying

Date: 1927
Description: Algerian Muslims touching their foreheads to the ground in prayer outside of a mosque.

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