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Photograph

Boy Scouts on Bicycles

Date: 1942
Description: WW II scrap metal drive. Scoutmaster Edward G. Shaw and his troop of boy scouts on bicycles and on a trailer loaded with scrap metal. The trailer is hitche...
Photograph

Men and Boys in front of Implement Dealer

Date: 1900
Description: A group of farmers and young children posing on a wooden platform or boardwalk in front of a farm implement dealership building, along with a horse-drawn m...
Photograph

Road Equipment Exhibit

Date: 01 29 1931
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Machine and Foundry road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, on display at Road Show on Monona...
Photograph

International G-61 Moving Truck

Date: 1921
Description: International Model G-61 truck operated by Valentine Furniture and Piano Moving and Storage. The truck is loaded with crates, possibly containing pianos, a...
Photograph

Snow Removal using McCormick-Deering 10-20 Tractor

Date: 12 21 1925
Description: Rear view of a man plowing a snow-covered city street with a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor. There is a railing on the right.
Photograph

P&H 5-Ton Monorail Hoist Loading Lumber onto Barge

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi...
Photograph

International Harvester Dealership

Date: 09 1921
Description: Two men are sitting behind the wheel of a truck with stake body parked in front of an International Harvester dealership storefront. On the right is a one-...
Painting

Menasha Painting

Date: 1856
Description: ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 242-251

Date: 
Description: The world is flat; we get around
this stretched credulity
by going straight as an arrow
and meeting ourselves in a space of time
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 319-324

Date: 
Description: There used to be a quiet. It wasn't deafness, it was roses

But they don't make it any more
They think it was a toy
Photograph

Line of Products in front of Dealership

Date: 06 15 1925
Description: View across road towards men standing outdoors with a line of products on display along the side of a dealership. The store entrance is at the corner on th...
Photograph

Touring Car in front of Dealership

Date: 06 25 1925
Description: View across street towards two men posing on the sidewalk with a touring car in front of a dealership. Two people are sitting in the back seat of the car.
Photograph

Men Posing with Early Models of Tractors

Date: 10 02 1906
Description: View across street towards men posing with very early models of tractors at McCormick Works. A sign near the door of the building behind them reads: "T.A. ...

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