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Madison Airport and Midwest Air Transport Airplanes

Date: 06 21 1930
Description: Midwest Air Transport planes in front of the hangar at the Madison Airport. Located northeast of the city near the Oscar Mayer plant, the field was someti...
Postcard

Scene at Mine Disaster

Date: 11 13 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry,...
Photograph

Tri City Airport

Date: 1928
Description: The Tri City Airport which served Wisconsin Rapids, Port Edwards, and Nekoosa, was organized in 1928 after the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company decided to pur...
Photograph

Larson Brothers' Airport

Date: 1923
Description: The hangar and three airplanes (a Canuck and a J-1 Standard) at the airport operated by the Larson Brothers of Larsen, Wisconsin. The field was both the mo...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls.
Photograph

Airplanes Parked at Royal Airport

Date: 05 26 1932
Description: At Royal Airport, a line of airplanes are parked in a row in a field. In the background is a hangar with automobiles parked nearby.
Photograph

Airplanes at Madison Airport

Date: 06 14 1930
Description: View from building towards five airplanes, parked in a line outdoors, at Madison Airport, Coolidge Avenue between North Street and Kedzie Street.
Photograph

Elevated View of Cameron

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of Cameron. Rooftops are in the foreground, and an unpaved street is along the left. Railroad tracks cut across the street, with railroad car...
Photograph

Aerial View of Downtown Sun Prairie

Date: 10 1928
Description: Aerial view of Sun Prairie, including the central business district, residences, and the surrounding countryside stretching to the horizon.
Photograph

Kimberly-Clark Paper Mill

Date: 1948
Description: Aerial view of the Kimberly-Clark Paper Mill on the Fox River, just east of Appleton.
Photograph

Elevated View of Wausau in Winter

Date: 1912
Description: Winter view over fields of town with hills in the far background.
Photograph

Carnation Company Milk Condensery

Date: 07 1949
Description: Aerial view of the Carnation Company milk condensery.
Photograph

Field of Petroleum Derricks

Date: 
Description: Next to a billboard, a road cuts through a field of petroleum derricks.
Photograph

View of an Oil Field

Date: 1920
Description: A vast oil field displays how Oklahoma became the the largest oil-producer in the country. Caption reads: "Oil Fields near Tulsa, Okla."
Photograph

Children Near Tenements

Date: 1917
Description: Elevated view of five children walking in a field behind what appears to be tenement housing. Wooden fire escapes are attached to the rear of the buildings...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 
Description: A view down Main Street. Shops are on either side of the street. Farmer's Bank is down the hill on the right.
Photograph

Railroad Bridge Across Pecatonica River

Date: 1929
Description: View down the railroad tracks across the bridge. On the far side are barns and industrial buildings among trees.
Photograph

Men Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: Elevated view of harvesters wading through cranberries contained by booms to feed them onto a conveyor to be loaded into the waiting trucks.
Photograph

Zimmel Implement

Date: 1966
Description: "This view is from St. Theresa Catholic Church. Looking north toward Zimmel Implement."
Print

Yuba Ball Tread Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Two-page advertisement featuring a collage of photographs depicting the Yuba ball tread tractor at work in farm fields. A photograph of the Yuba Constructi...

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