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Christmas Greetings

Date: 1910
Description: Holiday postcard with a young woman driving an open automobile with Santa Claus in the back, who is holding gifts in his left hand. He is wearing a red sui...
Photograph

Madison's First Car

Date: 1902
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Zimmerman in their locomobile steamer in 1902. Zimmerman purchased the car in 1901 and claimed it was the first permanent automobil...
Photograph

Man and Woman Looking at Car Engine

Date: 1920
Description: A man and woman are looking under the hood of a car in front of a business whose sign states, "The car that is seen and not heard. The car you will eventua...
Photograph

Mowrer-Cole Wedding

Date: 04 28 1939
Description: The wedding of journalist Richard Scott Mowrer of the "Chicago Daily News" (hat in hand) and Rosemund Emily Cole in Rome, Italy. Mowrer had just been expel...
Postcard

New Year Greetings

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard of a family in a car. It is decorated with flowers, foliage and ribbons. The parents are inside the car, and the son is sitting on the hoo...
Book or Pamphlet

Advertisement for International Speed Truck

Date: 1930
Description: Cover of a booklet advertising custom-built bodies for International speed trucks featuring an Art Deco illustration of a man driving an International truc...
Photograph

Flood at Fish Creek

Date: 04 1922
Description: The photographer's wife Clothilde leans on a railing, looking at water rushing through a stone culvert on Fish Creek. Their car is parked on the roadway. A...
Photograph

Mrs. Rahjes Holds Her Award

Date: 12 1981
Description: Mrs. William (Norma) Rahjes honored for her 50 years as an organist.
Print

Café Martin Supper Menu

Date: 11 19 1906
Description: One-page supper menu from Café Martin, with a watercolor illustration by Louis Renault of a man and a woman walking down the sidewalk arm-in-arm, a driver...
Photograph

Family Automobile

Date: 1910
Description: Winter scene with Dr. Joseph Smith and his wife, Mary E. Smith, sitting in an automobile parked in front of a house. Snow is on the ground and the automob...
Photograph

Group Portrait of People with Automobiles

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Description: View across road towards a group of people posing and standing near two automobiles. There are four women, three men, and a girl. The car on the right has...
Photograph

Construction of the Schoelkopf Automobile Dealership on E. Washington Avenue

Date: 1914
Description: After his success with the State Street and Pinckney Street car dealerships, Louis Schoelkopf built a new building at 210 E. Washington Avenue. The constru...
Photograph

Construction of the Schoelkopf Automobile Dealership on E. Washington Avenue

Date: 1914
Description: View across street towards the construction at 210 E. Washington Avenue. There is scaffolding in front of the building, and Emma Schoelkopf is standing in ...
Photograph

People with Automobile Near Lake

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Description: View of A.G. Zimmerman sitting in his automobile near the lake shore. He has one arm resting on the steering wheel; the other on the seat back. Two women a...
Photograph

Fairchild Model 21

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Description: Side view of a Fairchild Model 21 sitting on a runway with two people wearing aviator hats and goggles sitting in the front cockpit, and one person standin...
Photograph

Mailing Letters from a Car

Date: 01 20 1959
Description: A driver mailing letters into a roadside mailbox from a car at the corner of Monona Avenue and Doty Street. The photograph was taken with a long-lens camer...

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