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Photograph

Kids Drinking Milk in School

Date: 1921
Description: Classroom full of school children drinking milk at Washington school.
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

Hotel Loraine Lobby

Date: 09 21 1928
Description: Loraine Hotel lobby with local business directory next to registration desk, male customer at registration counter and two clerks in front of Western Union...
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".
Map or Atlas

Bottomley Farm

Date: 1925
Description: A map of the farm planned by Edwin Bottomley in 1844.
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...
Drawing

Survey and Development Plan of Parker Home

Date: 07 15 1927
Description: Survey and development plan of the home grounds area of Mr. and Mrs. George S. Parker, drawn in red, black, and brown ink.
Map or Atlas

Detail of a Sanborn Map of Grafton

Date: 07 1929
Description: A detail of a Sanborn map of Grafton including the New York Recording Laboratory.
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.
Book or Pamphlet

Polish Population Map

Date: 1920
Description: Map of Wisconsin showing native Polish populations by county.
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Hart-Parr Power Booklet

Date: 1929
Description: Back cover of a booklet advertising Hart-Parr farm machinery featuring a world map with the text: "The Sun Never Sets on Hart-Parr Power. Hart-Parr Company...
Photograph

Factory Manager at Fort Wayne Works

Date: 04 23 1929
Description: A man, probably a factory manager, sitting at a large desk in an office at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. A large map of the United States is h...
Print

Quick Service

Date: 1925
Description: Advertisement for C.L. Best tractors, promoting: "Quick Service from carefully selected vantage points also keeps Best Tractors on the job." An illustratio...
Photograph

Woman Working in Insurance Office

Date: 11 19 1927
Description: Young woman sitting at a typewriter, presumably a staff employee, in the office of the Indiana Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.
Drawing

Mound Map

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

Distribution of Silos in Wisconsin

Date: 1923
Description: This map shows the county boundaries, with each dot representing 50 silos.

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