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Tractor Trailer for World's Largest Cheese

Date: 1964
Description: The tractor-trailer used to transport and display the world's largest cheese at the 1964 World's Fair held in New York. The 34,591 pound cheddar was made i...
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Kelly's Liquor Store

Date: 11 08 1967
Description: Side view of Kelly's Liquor Store located on Main Street (STH 13) in Wisconsin Rapids. A Pepsi Cola delivery truck is parked in the store's parking lot.
Photograph

Rainy Day Delivery

Date: 10 11 1973
Description: On a rainy day a Gardners' Bakery truck makes a delivery to Miller's Corner IGA Grocery Store on STH 153.
Photograph

Dairy Delivery

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Description: Hawthorn Mellody Dairy truck parked at the delivery entrance to a Fremont store. Recently washed clothes hangs on the line of the upper story of the build...
Photograph

Kilbourn Cooperative Creamery

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Description: Exterior view of the Kilbourn Cooperative Creamery on Superior Street.
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Holt Lumber Company Truck

Date: 1921
Description: Truck owned by the Holt Lumber Company of Oconto which was used by the company to deliver slab wood to customers in the city. The truck was manufactured b...
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Highway Trailer

Date: 1948
Description: Twin refrigerated trailers, "coldmobiles," manufactured by the Highway Trailer Co. of Edgerton.
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Sternberg Truck

Date: 1910
Description: A 1910 model Sternberg Truck which was manufactured in Milwaukee.
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Potosi Beer Delivery Truck

Date: 07 1968
Description: Delivery truck of the Potosi Brewing Co., highlighting two of its labels: Alpine Lager Beer and Wisconsin Holiday Beer.
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Casper Jaggi and his Dog

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Description: Hand-colored image of Casper Jaggi and his dog, ready to deliver a load of Swiss cheese to Monticello. He was delivering 6 tubs of Swiss cheese, each weigh...
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Golden Guernsey Dairy Delivery Truck

Date: 1938
Description: A milkman stands inside a Golden Guernsey Dairy delivery truck loading bottles into a carrier. The truck is parked at a curb and a house is in the backgrou...
Photograph

Madison Pepsi Cola Company Truck

Date: 09 16 1938
Description: Madison Pepsi Cola Company truck made by the Ideal Body Company in front of the Ideal Body Company shop on Park Street.
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Pabst Blue Ribbon Truck

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Description: Pabst Blue Ribbon truck with storage box built by the Ideal Body Company.
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Bjerk's Grocery Wagon

Date: 02 1920
Description: Side view of a Bjerk's Grocery wagon parked on a snowy street in front of the shop, which was located at 1 N. Blair Street (at E. Washington Avenue).
Document

E.R. Godfrey & Sons Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the E.R. Godfrey & Sons Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a red belt with a silver buckle across the top left. Examples of the company's ...
Print

West Side Fuel Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the West Side Fuel Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, with cartoon-style drawings, printed in black ink, of workers mining coal with a pi...
Photograph

Stemp Typewriter Company Trucks

Date: 1933
Description: The Stemp Typewriter Company's two red and white service trucks. The company picked up and then delivered typewriters in need of repair. They also delivere...
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Delivery for Stemp Typewriter Company

Date: 1933
Description: Stanley P. Stemp (owner), third from the left, and three employees stand on the sidewalk next to an Ed Klief Transfer Line delivery truck and driver. Behin...
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Delivery for Stemp Typewriter Company

Date: 1933
Description: View from across State Street of men and women standing in front of the Stemp Typewriter Company as deliveries are stacked on the sidewalk. Stanley P. Stem...
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Delivery for Stemp Typewriter Company

Date: 1933
Description: View down the sidewalk of two men standing near a Doran's Tranfer delivery truck next to the Stemp Typewriter Company. One man is standing next to the cab ...

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