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Poster

10-20 and 15-30 Kerosene Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1924
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering 10-20 and 15-30 kerosene tractors. Includes a color illustration of man on a tractor at bottom left, and illustrat...
Photograph

Capitol Theatre Marquee

Date: 1928
Description: Slightly elevated view from street towards ushers posing in front of the Capitol Theatre. The marquee reads: "Maurice Chevalier in 'The Love Parade.'"
Photograph

Shooting a Refrigerator Advertisement

Date: 07 31 1950
Description: A woman wearing an apron posing with a refrigerator in a photography studio while a photographer takes a picture for advertising.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring an illustration of a soldier on a horse in a field under the title "Peace and...
Photograph

International Harvester Office Workers

Date: 1914
Description: Women and men at work inside an office. The women are using typewriters. A large advertisement for International motor trucks is on one wall.
Photograph

Hugh Flannery Receives $100 War Bond

Date: 01 29 1945
Description: With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B...
Photograph

Three Men at Desk

Date: 11 08 1943
Description: Three men are gathered around a desk looking over a copy of The Teller, published by the First National Bank of Wisconsin.
Photograph

Selling Defense Savings Bonds

Date: 01 1942
Description: Man and woman consider buying Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps from a clerk at a basement CUNA Credit Union National Association office.
Photograph

C.U.N.A. Office

Date: 04 05 1938
Description: Remodeled C.U.N.A. office, 142 Gilman Street, from far end, with eight people working at their desks.
Photograph

Remodeled C.U.N.A. Office

Date: 04 05 1938
Description: Remodeled C.U.N.A. (Credit Union National Association) office, Raiffeisen House 142 Gilman Street, after fire, taken from near the door, showing seven peop...
Photograph

CUNA Office

Date: 12 05 1935
Description: Three employees (one man, two women) of CUNA (Credit Union National Association) sitting at desks in their second floor office, 142 East Gilman Street. Sho...
Photograph

Roy F. Bergengren in his CUNA Office

Date: 12 05 1935
Description: Roy F. Bergengren, managing director of CUNA (Credit Union National Association), sitting behind his desk in his office at Raiffeisen House, 142 East Gilma...
Photograph

Engine Room, Arcade Manufacturing Co.

Date: 09 26 1933
Description: A.H. Hubbell Company workers build a "Complete Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Lining" brick wall around a boiler in the engine room at Arcade Manufacturing C...
Photograph

Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell

Date: 10 14 1931
Description: Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell discuss the "Forget-Me-Not" campaign for Disabled American Veterans.
Photograph

First National Bank of Edgerton

Date: 04 17 1931
Description: Interior of the First National Bank of Edgerton, with customers and tellers in cages.
Photograph

Watchmaker Nick Knechtges

Date: 03 06 1931
Description: Nick Knechtges, watchmaker, at his workbench in his home shop.
Photograph

Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: A man weighing a milk can on an old scale at the Pet Milk Company.
Photograph

Bank of Wisconsin

Date: 01 11 1928
Description: Three men in the Bookkeeping Department, Bank of Wisconsin, located at 1 West Main Street.
Photograph

Bank of Wisconsin Tellers

Date: 01 11 1928
Description: Elevated view of teller cages, Bank of Wisconsin, located at 1 West Main Street.
Photograph

Bookkeeping Department, Security State Bank

Date: 03 25 1927
Description: Four men in the bookkeeping department at the Security State Bank, 1965 Atwood Avenue. They are standing and working at machines near a row of windows that...

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