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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Ambrotype of the Wade House, a carriage inn located in Greenbush, also showing a section of the original plank road in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cover from schedule showing passengers relaxing on the deck of a screw-driven passenger/freight vessel. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of people seated in the Hiawatha's observation parlor with sky-top solar lounge. The Hiawatha was signature high-speed passenger train for th... |
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| Description: | A billboard advertising the opening of a particular McDonald's restaurant. Express highways promoted the emergence of large signs that could be read at a d... |
| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Children, adults, and a Northwest Airlines Boeing 707 jetliner on the tarmac at General Mitchell International Airport. The children, all first graders fro... |
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| Description: | A tea party on an airplane, a publicity stunt conceived by Harry Bruno to promote his Cleveland-area airline, Aeromarine Airlines. By taking local reporter... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Beachey's Curtiss Pusher and the crates in which the airplane was transported by rail to the Sheboygan fairgrounds. At the time, Lincoln Beachey wa... |
| Date: | 04 01 1932 |
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| Description: | A schedule of Transamerican Airlines covering its service to Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and other Great Lakes cities. The unfolded schedule depicts two p... |
| Date: | 07 15 1997 |
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| Description: | Northwest Airlines celebrated the 50th anniversary of its around-the-globe service to the Orient at Minneapolis Airport in 1997. For this event the airlin... |
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| Description: | Smoking and games in the lounge of a commercial airliner. The original caption for this unidentified photograph reads: "Delicious lunches, even six course ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | A passenger cabin on the Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127), a luxurious German-built airship. The Graf Zeppelin was taken out of service about a month after the Hinde... |
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| Description: | "It's Always Springtime on the C&O," an advertising brochure issued by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to publicize its status as the first railroad to air ... |
| Date: | 05 18 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the first passenger train to arrive at Merrill, a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway train. The passengers are waiting on a platform an... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | View down platform towards a locomotive pulling a Green Bay & Western Railroad train at the Green Bay depot, with a Snavely omnibus parked at the platform ... |
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| Description: | Colorized view of a crowd at the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul station. Caption reads: "C. M. & St. P. Depot Depot, Merrill, Wis." |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | County Line Motel on U.S. Highway 14 and Wis. 11. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two cutter sleighs on a road. Cutters were light weight sleighs that carried two passengers. This photograph shows bare ground in the background that mean... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of the Call of the Open Road, an annual publication of the Milwaukee Journal Tour Department based on its regular columns of mo... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Customers standing outside the small bar are probably waiting to take the ferry across the river. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A group of Rotarian tourists pose next to their tour bus in England. Joseph Jackson of Madison, the tall man in the back row wearing a hat, was a national... |
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