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Photograph

Tenth and Fifty-seventh Streets

Date: 1930
Description: Tenth and Fifty-seventh Streets, with early houses, car and barn.
Photograph

Testing Jeffery's Rambler

Date: 1901
Description: Thomas B. Jeffery's first Rambler automobile during a test for strength in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Print

Winther Truck Advertisement

Date: 03 09 1918
Description: Advertisement for a truck made by the Winther Motor Truck Company. Headline says, "Built for the Service - Trucks Now Must Yield".
Manuscript

Badger Brass Manufacturing Company Letter

Date: 12 16 1926
Description: Portion of the dissolution letter regarding the Badger Brass Manufacturing Company.
Manuscript

Badger Brass Manufacturing Company Letter

Date: 09 17 1897
Description: Portion of a letter regarding the incorporation of the Badger Brass Manufacturing Company.
Print

Brewmaster's Pub Napkin

Date: 
Description: Napkin from Brewmaster's Pub in Kenosha advertising itself as the Midwest's first brew pub. The graphic on the napkin includes a beer stein and a stalk of ...
Book or Pamphlet

United Refrigerator & Ice Machine Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1915
Description: Front cover featuring ten inset color illustrations of refrigerating machinery, refrigerators and store fixtures in use in the home and in shops.
Map or Atlas

Kenosha Harbor, Wisconsin

Date: 1910
Description: This map is a survey of Kenosha Harbor and shows local streets, public buildings, local businesses, and part of Lake Michigan. Included is text on sailing ...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Line

Date: 1930
Description: A sign post next to a survey marker, lower right, marks the state line between Wisconsin and Illinois south of Kenosha. Signage on that post identifies Sta...
Postcard

The New Kenosha Theatre

Date: 1927
Description: Illustration of the New Kenosha Theatre. The marquee is advertising "Swim, Girl, Swim" with Bebe Daniels. An advertisement is painted on the left side of t...
Photograph

Highway 41

Date: 05 1939
Description: View down median of road towards a truck parked on the scales of a weigh station in the center of Highway 41 just north of the Wisconsin/Illiinois state li...
Photograph

Country Store

Date: 1977
Description: A teenage girl is walking up cement steps to a sidewalk in front of a country store and Post Office. An American flag is flying from a column in the foregr...

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