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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several men, some of whom may be railroad workers, posing in front of a Minnesota and St. Paul wood-burning engine at a train crossing. Th... |
| 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: | 03 14 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street towards the storefront and delivery vehicles of Spic and Span Dry Cleaning. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Sons of the American Legion in formation outside the Witt Studio. Two of them hold flags. Names are (left to right), Don Frank, Jerry Zander, Ralph Meyer, ... |
| Date: | 06 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Fanchon and Mario "Rhythm Girls" posing in front of an A&W Root Beer. They are standing in a line and holding mugs of root beer. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Madison Consumers Dairy Co-operative, probably located at 102 South Dickinson Street, with the milkmen posing next to their home delivery t... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking West." |
| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Group of people, including dwarfs and midgets, posing with "the worlds largest tire" in front of the RKO Orpheum Theatre as part of a promotion for Goodyea... |
| Date: | 02 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Chanticleer Orchestra managers, each with a dog at his side, sitting on the front steps of a building with an awning overhead that reads "Chanticleer." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagons, including a water wagon, stand on a street next to a broad sidewalk in a commercial district. The storefronts of P.L. McQuillan and Con... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A steam fire engine of Milwaukee's Fire Company #2 drawn by three white horses racing to a fire. Prior motor driven fire equipment was a greater danger tha... |
| Date: | 03 11 1949 |
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| Description: | A delivery boy straddles his bicycle, ready to make a delivery of medicine for the Pekin Prescription Laboratory. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two salesmen stand beside one of the Willson's Monarch Remedies horse-drawn wagons. Willson's sold patent medicines, spices, extracts, flavorings, and "toi... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Man driving an egg-shaped "Co-op Eggs" truck outside a Safeway grocery store. The truck is an International D-300 operated by the Washington Cooperative Eg... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | International D-35 box panel truck delivering Fox's Ubet chocolate flavored syrup to a "Sweet Shoppe." The truck was owned by H. Fox & Company, 283 Christo... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Man unloading a side of beef from a "Maple Leaf Hams and Bacon" truck outside a butcher shop in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The truck is an Intern... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Man unloading boxes of "Baby Ruth" and "Butterfinger" candy bars from an International D-2 truck outside the Monona Club. The truck was owned by the Suprem... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Man unloading cases of 7-Up soda outside a delicatessen at the corner of Michigan and Northampton streets. Truck operated by Henry Guggenheimer. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two men are rolling Leisy's beer barrels from an International truck on a downtown street. The truck was owned by Leisy Brewery. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two International two ton model G trucks hauling coal for the H.A. Robinson Fuel Co. A sign above the company's office building reads "gravity coal pockets... |
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