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Concrete Pour at Clintonville

Date: 1914
Description: Paving the main street with concrete was an occasion that brought out a large part of the Clintonville community to watch.
Photograph

War Departmental Trial

Date: 1918
Description: Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ...
Photograph

First Four-Wheel Drive

Date: 1909
Description: Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at t...
Book or Pamphlet

Topp-Stewart Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Interior pages of a brochure advertising the Topp-Stewart four-wheel drive tractor. Two photographs of men using the tractor, one in snow and one in a farm...
Postcard

Million Dollar Labor Day Parade

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a Labor Day parade with more than thirty identical automobiles in a long line. Crowds are watching from the sidewalk. Caption reads: "Mill...
Photograph

Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Dittberner

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Description: A man and a woman are standing outside between a fence and a building. The man is kneeling and using a shovel, and the woman is standing and watching him. ...
Photograph

Decoration Day Parade

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Description: View down unpaved road through town, with a parade of horse-drawn wagons on the left, and people walking along a sidewalk on the right. A building on the r...
Photograph

Misters Kaiser and Sedgwick

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Description: View from unpaved street towards two men posing in front of a brick building, which has signs that read: "F. A. Sedgwick Druggist," "Wallpaper," and "Stati...

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