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Man with Bowes Metro Truck

Date: 1950
Description: A man holds a coil of tubing while standing near the opened back doors of an International truck with Metro body owned by Bowes Auto Products. The text on ...
Photograph

Bowes Automotive Metro Truck

Date: 1950
Description: A man drives an International truck with Metro body owned by the Bowes Automotive Products company. The text on the side of the truck reads, "Bowes Dependa...
Postcard

Main Street

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Description: Photographic postcard of Main Street. Businesses line the street, including the Adams Auto Company Dodge-Plymouth, McBride Equipment Company, and McCormick...
Photograph

Ideal Body Company Truck

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Description: Man holding a wooden barrel next to a truck modified by the Ideal Body Company parked on the street in front of the Ideal Body Company building on Park Str...
Photograph

Ideal Body Company Truck

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Description: Truck with bed built by Ideal Body Company advertising the company. the truck is parked in front of the Ideal Body Company building on Park Street.
Print

Antone De Pas & Son Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Antone De Pas & Son, Badger tire and tube dealer in Bay Settlement, Wisconsin, with a three-color illustration of a couple standing by an aut...
Photograph

Business Section

Date: 1925
Description: View across road of the exterior of L.H. Hanold, a general merchandise store offering gasoline, tires, tubes, eggs, and cream. In the far background is a t...
Photograph

Lima Center Street Scene

Date: 1926
Description: View from across road of an automotive repair shop along a commercial street.
Photograph

Hustler Harvest Festival

Date: 1915
Description: A laughing and smiling crowd of people surrounds a sack race at the Harvest Festival. Across the street is a storefront with a sign for DeLaval Cream Separ...
Photograph

Truck Bodies Outside the New Schoelkopf Dealership

Date: 1915
Description: Two early Ford truck bodies on the sidewalk in front of the Schoelkopf Ford dealership at 210 E. Washington Avenue. On the right at the curb are a Shelko o...
Photograph

The Schoelkopf Lincoln Ford Dealership

Date: 1920
Description: View from across street towards the Schoelkopf automobile dealership at 210 E. Washington Avenue. Above the show windows flanking the entrance are signs fo...
Photograph

Lincoln-Ford Fordson Tow Truck

Date: 1921
Description: View from street of the Lincoln-Ford Fordson tow truck, with "authorized service" printed on the tow truck arm. On the cab of the tow truck is a line drawi...
Photograph

Schoelkopf Truck Hauling a Fordson Tractor

Date: 1923
Description: Schoelkopf truck with a Fordson tractor on the truck bed is parked outside the Schoelkopf Lincoln Ford Dealership at 210-216 E. Washington Avenue. The chur...
Photograph

Ford Truck Advertising Schoelkopf Automobile Supplies

Date: 1923
Description: The Schoelkopf advertising truck parked on the street near the store at 210-216 E. Washington Avenue. The truck advertises a number of products: Rockway Sp...
Photograph

Ford Service and Repair Shop

Date: 1920
Description: View along sidewalk of the front of the Ford Service and Repair Shop garage. This appears to be the block of Williamson St in the foreground. The Cardinal ...
Photograph

Arlington Garage

Date: 1924
Description: View across street towards another competitor to Louis Schoelkopf's Ford business, the Arlington Garage, which sold automobiles and accessories for the Jac...

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