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Photograph

Kennedy Manor Dining Room Bar

Date: 02 17 1937
Description: Kennedy Manor dining room bar with four stools and cigarette vending machine, 1 Langdon Street.
Photograph

Harvesting Tobacco Leaves

Date: 1939
Description: Field workers gathering and spearing cut tobacco leaves.
Photograph

Stringing Tobacco

Date: 09 1938
Description: A farmer stringing tobacco somewhere in southern Wisconsin.
Photograph

Spheeris Brothers Truck

Date: 09 21 1937
Description: A man opens the rear door of an International truck used by Spheeris Brothers Inc. The original caption reads: "Model D2, 125" W.B. - 6.00 - 16 tires." The...
Drawing

Progressive, Emblem

Date: 04 26 1935
Description: Drawing submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. The drawing includes the word "Progressive" in blue and white letters over the shap...
Postcard

Tobacco Field, Near Edgerton

Date: 1933
Description: Black and white photographic postcard (with colored sky) of farmers in a tobacco field ready for harvest. Caption reads: "Tobacco Field, Near Edgerton, Wis...
Photograph

Zion City Signs

Date: 1930
Description: Two signs are taped to the inside of the glass in a double hung window in a wood sided building. The photographer is reflected in the lower left corner of ...
Photograph

Tobacco Field

Date: 07 1936
Description: Straight rows of tobacco plants flourishing in a large field. There are farm buildings and a windmill in the background. Utility poles on the are on the ri...

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