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| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake... |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | The airplane invented by Carl S. Bates on the beach at Daytona Beach, Florida. Coverage of this event by a local newspaper noted that the advantages of Bat... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | The monoplane glider built and flown by Carl S. Bates of Clear Lake, Iowa. During the previous year Bates had built a bi-plane glider. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th... |
| Date: | 07 09 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman shopping in the produce department at the Kroger store at Union Corners, 2541 Winnebago Street. She was promoting the Oscar Mayer Health for Victor... |
| Date: | 02 05 1938 |
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| Description: | Side view of Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Weights and Measures Division truck parked in a garage beside measuring device. |
| Date: | 07 30 1929 |
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| Description: | Addition to Hydraulics laboratory building at the University of Wisconsin, 660 N. Park Street. Contractor J.P. Cullen & Son. |
| Date: | 06 08 1928 |
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| Description: | Employee with a Toledo scale at the Fisher Body Co. |
| Date: | 05 22 1928 |
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| Description: | Conveyer belt at General Lab for Wisconsin Foundry. |
| Date: | 01 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Paint test panels near Middleton, with shadow of photographer and camera. |
| Date: | 01 09 1928 |
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| Description: | Difference in paint on fences on a state highway. |
| Date: | 07 02 1946 |
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| Description: | Experimental model steam car, taken from left side, for the Keen Manufacturing Company, located at 2661 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man sets up a cone-shaped instrument designed to distill fresh water from salt water as he leans out of a small motor boat on the water. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Color poster printed to honor the 60th anniversary of Alfred Lawson's flight from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C. The poster includes a portrait of Lawson a... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for Aultman, Miller and Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Features a chromolithograph of a woman sit... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Advertisement celebrating 100 years of International Harvester history. Features inset drawings of McCormick's first reaper in 1831 and "Harvester's first ... |
| Date: | 03 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Prototype of "Sure Grip" fishing pole holder for carrying fishing poles on the top or sides of a car. Shows device with an advertising card attached that i... |
| Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Display of Research Products Corporation Filter Fry frying pan covers in a grocery cart. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Yerkes Observatory. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The Administration Building of Forest Products Laboratory. |
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