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War Departmental Trial

Date: 1918
Description: Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ...
Photograph

First Four-Wheel Drive

Date: 1909
Description: Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at t...
Book or Pamphlet

Topp-Stewart Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Interior pages of a brochure advertising the Topp-Stewart four-wheel drive tractor. Two photographs of men using the tractor, one in snow and one in a farm...
Postcard

Four Wheel Drive

Date: 1914
Description: Slightly elevated view of the United States Military surveying four wheel drive (FWD) trucks, manufactured in Clintonvlle, carrying supply boxes. Caption r...
Postcard

Four Wheel Drive Doing Its Bit

Date: 1918
Description: Postcard with two photographs of four wheel drive (F.W.D.) trucks, which were manufactured in Clintonville, Wisconsin. They are carrying supplies and troop...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Four Wheel Drive Historic Marker

Date: 10 15 1960
Description: Walter A. Olen, former president of the FWD (four wheel drive) Corporation and curator of the FWD Foundation museum, unveiled the Four Wheel Drive historic...
Photograph

Bernhard G. Stieg at Sedgwick's Drug Store

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Description: A man is standing behind a counter in a drugstore, pouring liquid from one bottle into a different container. Caption reads: "Bernhard G. Stieg, Pharmacist...
Photograph

Dittberner and Stieg Families

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Description: Stereograph view of eight people posing around a Christmas tree. Caption reads: "M. Dittberner & family, B.G. Stieg & family, Anna & Mary Block."
Photograph

Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Dittberner

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Description: A man and a woman are standing outside between a fence and a building. The man is kneeling and using a shovel, and the woman is standing and watching him. ...
Photograph

Misters Kaiser and Sedgwick

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Description: View from unpaved street towards two men posing in front of a brick building, which has signs that read: "F. A. Sedgwick Druggist," "Wallpaper," and "Stati...

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