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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn fire wagon coming down a cobblestone street in Milwaukee. The fact that automobiles are also in the photograph suggests that the transition to ... |
| Date: | 05 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Father demonstrates controls of a mini-race car as his daughter sits in the car. |
| Date: | 11 27 1934 |
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| Description: | Auto Mechanics Class at East High School. The students left to right are Raymond Cattell, Leif Breiby, Clarence Elsa, Leslie Hoppe, and instructor Orian Dh... |
| Date: | 08 01 1966 |
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| Description: | The Bill Adams company prepares to perform ground-to-plane transfer with a clipped-wing Piper Cub at Austin Straubel Airport. |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach. Bates originally chall... |
| Date: | 01 19 1934 |
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| Description: | A small race car built by Samuel Olson at the Wisconsin Oil Burner factory, 1134 Regent Street is enjoyed by his sons, Donald Olson, seated, and Gordon at ... |
| Date: | 08 03 1930 |
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| Description: | Mr. Trostle gets his brakes tested by a Weaver Automatic Brake Tester in the "Safety Lane" on Wisconsin Avenue, sponsored by the American Automobile Associ... |
| Date: | 11 07 1929 |
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| Description: | Three mechanics are working on an automobile in the Capital Buick body shop located at 750 E. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Group of four women and four men and an airplane pilot standing in and around two Oakland automobiles at the Pennco Field (Royal Airport). Taken for Associ... |
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| Description: | Group of men repairing railroad track near Racine. |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | The Soap Box Derby held on East Washington Avenue leading from the Wisconsin State Capitol. Shown are two racers coming down the hill with the crowd along ... |
| Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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| Description: | African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, drove up to Milwaukee from his home in Chicago to watch the Vanderbilt Cup race on October 2, 1... |
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| Description: | Men, motorcycles and a car stopped on a rural dirt road. A sign on the back of the car reads "Milwaukee Journal Motorcycle Tour Press Car". |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Actor and race car driver Paul Newman at Elkhart Lake, home of the Road America race. |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Mario Andretti, whom many consider to be the greatest race car driver of all time, at the start/finish line of the Road America race course at Elkhart Lake... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Rustic, log cabin gas station in Chippewa Falls with a traveler's vehicle being filled with gasoline. It is not clear if the young woman in overalls is a p... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Automobile traffic, with a street railroad car in the background, on a rainy day. |
| Date: | 11 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Automotive Mechanics class at East High School. Carl La Belle welding a fender with David Beale looking on. |
| Date: | 07 23 1977 |
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| Description: | Dick Leppla driving in the qualifying race for the Can-Am (Canadian-American) feature at Road America. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Freedom House in flames after Milwaukee Police fired tear gas into the building. Two armed officers stand in front of the burning building. Both officers h... |
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