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Poster

Farmall Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Farmall tractors showing a map of the United States with trains speeding in all directions from Illinois. Bears th...
Map or Atlas

Goodrich, Graham and Morton Steamship Lines Map

Date: 1926
Description: Pages 21 and 22 from the 1926 schedule are a map showing the routes of the Goodrich Transit Company, Great Lakes Transit Company, Detroit and Cleveland Lin...
Photograph

Showroom with Truck that Crossed the Sahara

Date: 02 07 1929
Description: Showroom featuring the Special Delivery truck (center) that crossed the Sahara Desert from 1927-1928. There is a framed map on an easel on the left.
Photograph

Calumet Harbor

Date: 1920
Description: Calumet Harbor on Lake Winnebago. On the left is a map, and on the right are two images, one captioned: "Calumet Harbor".
Book or Pamphlet

Scenic Wisconsin Motorways

Date: 1924
Description: Front and back covers of Scenic Wisconsin Motorways, a guide to Wisconsin roads compiled by Victor F. Pettric and published by the Wisconsin Motorists Asso...
Poster

Underground Electric Railway Company: Motor Bus Travel Poster

Date: 1924
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the "The Way to London's Country by Motor Bus" using the Underground Electric Railway Company's motor bus servic...
Photograph

Alabama Demonstration Farm Plot

Date: 01 24 1924
Description: Plot for an International Harvester Company demonstration farm.
Photograph

Hemmeter Auto & Electrical Supplies Storefront

Date: 02 04 1929
Description: A display window for the "F. HEMMETER, JR. AUTO & ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES RADIOS - TIRES" showing a scale model diorama of an International truck and two men i...
Drawing

Mound Map

Date: 11 11 1921
Description: A hand-drawn map of Little Bluff mounds.
Map or Atlas

Highway Map & Guide of Wisconsin

Date: 1928
Description: A Wisconsin state highway map, featuring the major highways, rivers, lakes, and cities. There are a few advertisements on the front and back. The back also...
Map or Atlas

Rand McNally Standard Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1924
Description: This map shows railroads, electric lines, and steamship lines. The left margin includes an index of principal cities, and the lower left corner includes a...
Map or Atlas

Sectional Map of Lands for Sale in Southern Bayfield and Northern Sawyer Counties, Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: This map shows lands owned by the American Immigration Company (red) and the Homeseekers Land Company (green). The map also shows highways, roads, railroad...
Map or Atlas

An Historical Map of Sheboygan County : As It Appeared Under Aboriginal Possession

Date: 1925
Description: This map shows trails, mounds, villages, corn fields, and contemporary civil townships; some villages and features include both Indian and English place na...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Grounds, State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Date: 1926
Description: This blueprint map is oriented with north to the upper left. The map shows buildings with note of those "to be torn down," sidewalks, proposed power plant,...
Map or Atlas

Rand McNally Junior Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1927
Description: This map details automobile routes throughout the state as well as parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois. Cities, the Mississippi River, Lake Mic...
Map or Atlas

Rand McNally Standard Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: This map details automobile routes spanning across Wisconsin and parts of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Iowa. Cities, counties, Lake Michigan, Lake Su...
Map or Atlas

Auto Trails Map Wisconsin

Date: 1924
Description: This map shows automobile routes across the state and into parts of Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan. Cities, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Green Ba...
Map or Atlas

Rand McNally Standard Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: This map shows the entire state as well as portions of Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan. Counties outlined in yellow, cities, rivers, lakes, and rai...
Map or Atlas

Tourists Guide and Good Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: The map shows the entire state with cities, rivers, and lakes labeled. The upper and right margin include inset maps of Racine, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Applet...
Map or Atlas

The Milwaukee Journal Tour Club Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1929
Description: This map of the entire state includes portions of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota. The map shows U.S., state, and county highways, roads, campsites...

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