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VF-190 International

Date: 1956
Description: VF-190 rolls off Fort Wayne assembly line. Powered by 478 CID, V8 gas engine. Long wheelbase.
Photograph

VF-192 Tandem Dump Truck

Date: 1956
Description: International VF-192 tandem dump truck with load of coal. Powered by V8-478 CID gas engine. Painted on the driver's side door: "Black Nugget Coal Mining Co...
Photograph

S-150 Metro and S-120 Metro in Parking Lot

Date: 1956
Description: Two Metros in a parking lot. On the left, a man sits in the driver's seat of a S-150 Metro with a sign painted on the side reading: "West Suburban, Grocers...
Photograph

Metro's in Parking Lot

Date: 1956
Description: The Model on the left is a S-150, and painted on the side is: "West Suburban Grocers." The model on the right is a two-tone S-120, and painted on the side ...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Milwaukee and Environs: Schools

Date: 1956
Description: This map shows city, suburban, parochial and other types schools, with an explanation of symbols in the right margin. The original caption for the map read...
Photograph

Vel and Dale Phillips

Date: 1956
Description: Vel Phillips sitting in an armchair, wearing a tan top with a light blue skirt. Dale is kneeling next to her, wearing eyeglasses. A television is in the co...
Photograph

"Helen of Troy" Still

Date: 1956
Description: Still of Rossana Podesta as Helen and Jacques Sernas as Paris from the 1956 film "Helen of Troy." The two gaze into each others eyes as they stand opposite...
Map or Atlas

City of South Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Date: 1956
Description: This blueline print map shows streets, pedestrian pathways, plans to widen existing streets, and streets and alleys vacated and to be vacated. The upper le...
Postcard

Scenic Drive — Peninsula State Park

Date: 1956
Description: Evergreen Road in Peninsula State Park during fall peak season. An automobile is driving up the road.
Print

Certificate Share in Gisholt Ice Chippers

Date: 1956
Description: Certificate for Gisholt Ice Chippers, with a cartoon of group of fishermen, milling about turned over wine bottles and cheering as an oil rig gushes fish o...
Map or Atlas

Highway Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1956
Description: This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states. The map is organized such that a single map of Wisconsin is...
Postcard

Aerial View of Downtown Section of Green Bay

Date: 1956
Description: Caption reads: "Aerial View, Downtown Section, Green Bay, Wis." Text on reverse reads: "This aerial view shows the downtown district of the east side of ...
Postcard

Bellin Hospital

Date: 1956
Description: Color reproduction of a four-story brick hospital with cars parked at the curbs. A fire hydrant is on the corner.
Historical Object

Presidential Political Campaign Buttons

Date: 1956
Description: Framed assortment of buttons, and a few stamps, representing the presidential election between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson in 1956. A few of the ...
Photograph

International TD-24 and IH Trucks in Bogota, Colombia

Date: 1956
Description: View of an International TD-24 and International trucks parked inside a building. International Harvester's resident representative in Colombia and Panama,...
Photograph

International Service Sign in Bogota, Colombia

Date: 1956
Description: International service sign on the side of a building for "Servicio Laralford" in Bogota, Colombia.
Photograph

International Warehouse in Bogota, Colombia

Date: 1956
Description: Two men standing outdoors near trucks parked at the International warehouse in Bogota. A large sign in the background, seen from the back, reads: "IH Camio...
Postcard

Old Wade House; Upstairs Sitting Room

Date: 1956
Description: Color postcard of the upstairs parlor, with two women wearing period dress sitting in chairs and reading. Text on reverse reads: "UPSTAIRS SITTING ROOM,...
Postcard

Butternut House; Dining Room

Date: 1956
Description: Three women in period clothes are having tea in the dining room. Text on reverse reads: "Dining Room, Butternut House, Old Wade House State Park, Greenb...
Postcard

Public School

Date: 1956
Description: Exterior view of the public school, a brick one-story building. Caption reads: "Public School, Hillsboro, Wis."

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