Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 50

Photograph

Homecoming Parade in Eau Claire

Date: 1918
Description: Uniformed soldiers marching in a World War I homecoming parade. Many men are carrying flags, and the street is heavily decorated with U.S. flags. The soldi...
Photograph

First Gillette Company Tire

Date: 1917
Description: Interior shot of a group of men, women and boys at the Gillette Tire Company. The Gillette Safety Tire Company was founded in Eau Claire in 1916 and the cr...
Photograph

Eau Claire Tourist Cabins

Date: 1929
Description: Bartlett's Cabin Camp on Highways 10 &12 near Eau Claire.
Photograph

Shipping Tractor Tires

Date: 09 21 1945
Description: Two workers at the United Rubber Company plant at Eau Claire, Alfred Stokes and Eugene Stafford, loading large farm tires onto a railroad car for shipment.
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1962
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, greeting admiring members of the public at the junior livestock exposition in Eau Claire. The Alice in Dairyland com...
Photograph

Making Grasshopper Bait

Date: 1938
Description: At the grasshopper bait mixing station at Fall Creek, two cement mixers were used to mix sawdust, a whey product, and sodium arsenite. So severe was the gr...
Photograph

Alice and the Winner

Date: 1962
Description: Alice in Dairyland 1962, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, posing with a young winner and his entry at the regional Junior Livestock Exposition in Eau Claire.
Photograph

The Big Store

Date: 06 26 1906
Description: Group of salespeople standing in front of The Big Store.
Photograph

Street Scene with Water Tower

Date: 1929
Description: View down street. Cars are parked on either side. A repairman checks the tires of a car in front of the Augusta Auto Company, gas station and auto repair. ...
Photograph

Ventilation Fans

Date: 12 12 1944
Description: Three men stand near ventilation fans for cementing machines on the roof of Building #3.
Photograph

Passenger Curing Unit

Date: 03 14 1947
Description: Men working in the passenger curing unit "V" on the first floor of Building #8.
Photograph

Veteran Tire Builder

Date: 10 19 1944
Description: Veteran tire builder Bill McNair works on a pocket while constructing a heavy service truck tire. Two men wearing suits and hats stand in the left backgrou...
Photograph

First Tire Made at Gillette Tire Plant

Date: 10 21 1944
Description: The first tire to be cured in the Gillette Tire Plant is removed from the mold. From left to right are F.B. Davis Jr. (Chairman of the United States Rubber...
Photograph

Bagging a Tire

Date: 10 19 1944
Description: Bagging the first tire made in the Gillette Tire Plant. From left to right are H.A. Berg, C.E. Stare, F.A. Cobb, F.J. Amundson, R.L. Chatterson, R.J. Hanse...
Photograph

Cutting Rubber

Date: 10 19 1944
Description: Elevated view of Tom Ellington cutting rubber from a roll to make a tire at the Gillette Tire Plant.
Photograph

Building the First Tire at Gillette

Date: 10 19 1944
Description: Tire builder William (Bill) McNair puts a pocket on the first tire built at the Gillette Tire Plant. Civic representatives and employees of construction fi...
Photograph

Stitching a Tire

Date: 10 19 1944
Description: Tire builder Bill McNair stitches the side walls of a heavy service truck tire at the Gillette Tire Plant as men in suits watch.
Photograph

Tire Builder

Date: 04 20 1954
Description: A tire builder at work.
Postcard

At the Dells

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of a group of people gathered at the shoreline of a lake. One group is launching a boat near the shore. Another group is in a sm...
Photograph

First Gillette Tire

Date: 05 23 1917
Description: A group of men, women and children are standing and watching as a Gillette employee works on the first tire produced by the Gillette Rubber Company. From l...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: