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Day's Service Station

Date: 1936
Description: View across road of a one-story building, Day's Service Station, with gasoline pumps and signs and a map out front. The signs read “Straight Ahead, 10 Mi. ...
Photograph

Highway 61

Date: 1929
Description: View across road of a gas station and restaurant on Highway 61. There is a man in a pickup truck, and another man has his foot propped on the truck's step....
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1929
Description: View down road, with railroad tracks in the foreground. On the left is an automobile repair shop with two cars parked near the gas pumps. A man is standing...
Print

International KBR-11 Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 10 1947
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of a Model KBR-11 truck-tractor with semi-trailer. Includes the text: "Winter Tr...
Photograph

Beck Motor Sales

Date: 02 1978
Description: "Beck Motor Sales. This fine 1917 Dodge Roadster is on display in the showroom. Reuben Beck (with phone) and his brother, Gerald, (center) are the propriet...
Photograph

Gordon Loehrke's Auto Repair

Date: 02 09 1978
Description: "Gordon Loehrke's Auto Repair."
Photograph

Olson's Broadway Cities Service Station

Date: 11 18 1954
Description: Advertising portrait of Ole Olson. He is wearing a uniform and bow tie with emblem patches on his jacket and cap. He is holding a gas hose nozzle and is st...
Photograph

Tourist Stop

Date: 1925
Description: View across road of seven young men posing outside of a variety store. Two men have tires placed over their shoulders. The store's sign advertises: "Touris...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1922
Description: View down the curved unpaved street. Two men and a dog stand under the awning of a shop on the left. Another group of men are posed near a car parked outsi...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1911
Description: View down street lined with businesses. There is a surrey or carriage with fringe along the top in the foreground on the left, and two women sit in a horse...
Photograph

Retreat Street Scene

Date: 1922
Description: View down dirt road towards a garage and other wooden buildings on the left. A tire shop back on the right. Two men are standing in front of the garage nea...
Photograph

Raymond Alpin

Date: 1933
Description: Raymond Alpin, president of the Potter School District No. 3 PTA stands in the doorway of his garage. There is a large Firestone advertisement on the left....
Photograph

"Simonizing" an Automobile

Date: 12 1947
Description: Two men "simonizing" an automobile. Photographed for the Simonize Company of Chicago. A refrigerator for Coca-Cola products is in the back of the garage.
Photograph

Buick Auto Garage

Date: 
Description: View across road of D.A. Meister's Garage, with a fire truck parked in front and an automobile parked at the curb on the right. One boy is sitting on the f...
Photograph

Hustler Harvest Festival

Date: 1915
Description: View down unpaved street towards a large crowd of men, women and children gathered around the stalls of the Hustler Harvest Festival. The festival is set u...
Photograph

Greased Pig Chase at the Hustler Harvest Festival

Date: 1922
Description: View down unpaved Main Street of a group of men racing after a pig during the Hustler Harvest Festival. On the right is the Nash Service Station and the M....
Postcard

First Avenue Auto Garage

Date: 
Description: The First Ave Auto Garage, which seems to be an auto sales showroom, at 509 First Avenue in the S. Sixth Street neighborhood of Walker's Point is featured ...
Photograph

Mazo Motor Company Opening

Date: 1922
Description: View across street towards a large crowd of people posing outside of the Mazo Motor Company dealership at the opening in early spring. Behind the crowd are...
Photograph

Ford Garage

Date: 
Description: View from street of five men posing outside a Ford garage, a two-story brick building in an unidentified small Wisconsin town. Above the entrance is a "Gar...
Photograph

Ford Service and Repair Shop

Date: 1920
Description: View along sidewalk of the front of the Ford Service and Repair Shop garage. This appears to be the block of Williamson St in the foreground. The Cardinal ...

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