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McCormick Catalog Illustration

Date: 1899
Description: Color lithograph color illustration from the back of an advertising catalog printed for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing an arch commemorat...
Photograph

State Street from 200 Block

Date: 1929
Description: State Street view looking toward the University of Wisconsin, with the 200 block in the foreground. The marquee for the Capitol Theatre reads "'Jealousy,' ...
Photograph

MG&E Office Building

Date: 05 26 1929
Description: The Madison Gas and Electric (MG&E) office building on the corner of North Fairchild and West Mifflin Streets. The Bedford limestone building was designed ...
Photograph

McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Office Building

Date: 1890
Description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company office building from the corner of Market and Jackson streets. The building's address was 212 Market Street. Offices f...
Photograph

Old Grocer in his Office

Date: 06 21 1960
Description: William Behnke goes over bills in his office at the rear of his store, which was in business since July 12, 1899.
Photograph

Rathskeller Inc. Liquor Store Interior

Date: 04 19 1934
Description: Rathskeller Inc., 122 E. Washington Avenue, liquor store interior, framed with arches, with a clerk behind the counter.
Photograph

Paul E. Stark Company

Date: 05 26 1929
Description: View across intersection towards the Paul E. Stark Co. building, 124 W. Mifflin Street. The view also includes the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Life Insur...
Photograph

Fire Damage to the Third Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 02 1904
Description: The office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in the East Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol after the fire of February 27.
Photograph

Racine Roundhouse

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Description: The locomotive "D.K. Bush," which was built in the Racine shops of the Western Union Railroad in 1879, the same year in which the line came into the posses...
Photograph

Tunnel at Tunnel City

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Description: View down railroad tracks towards a group of construction workers posed near the east portal of the railroad tunnel near Tunnel City.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Pharmacy Dispensary

Date: 1893
Description: Pharmacy supplies are displayed in shelves in an office at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, lit by gas lamps hanging above the desk. (Mendota M...
Postcard

Knight Hotel

Date: 1907
Description: This building was named the Knight Block and contained retail on the first floor, business offices on the second floor and the Knight Hotel on the third, f...
Print

Schlitz Palm Garden

Date: 07 03 1886
Description: An interior view of the Schlitz Palm Garden, which was located on North 3rd Street, south of West Wisconsin Avenue. This image includes a drawing of a wait...
Photograph

Office Force and Foremen

Date: 03 12 1914
Description: The office force and foremen posing before the south facade of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam.
Photograph

International TiltTop Bottle Capper Truck

Date: 1929
Description: A driver is sitting in an International truck operated by J. Rabinowitz and Sons, purveyors of the "TiltTop Bottle Capper." Text on the truck reads: "3 tim...
Photograph

Razing of Milwaukee Country Court House

Date: 06 19 1939
Description: Milwaukee County Court House in the process of being razed. A worker is standing on part of the second floor, in front of what is left of the dome.
Photograph

Office Building at IH Cuban Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Two men wearing hats talk on the porch outside an office building on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba.
Photograph

Economy Laundry Truck

Date: 09 02 1925
Description: A man sits behind the wheel of an International truck used by Economy Laundry. The truck is parked in front of an entrance gate, with paths and trees in th...
Photograph

Bank of Baraboo

Date: 1920
Description: An imposing two-story structure on the corner of Oak Street and Third Avenue. Lawyers offices occupy the upstairs.
Photograph

U.S. Mint

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Description: A view of the Coining Room, with men and women working at various machines. Large pallets of boxes, on wheels, sit in the central aisle, on the left. Capti...

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