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Photograph

International Auto Wagon on Snowy Street

Date: 1910
Description: Two young men are driving an International Auto Wagon through a snow-bound residential street. The truck was owned by C.H. Morgan & Co.
Photograph

Winter Street Scene

Date: 1899
Description: Winter scene of two men standing on a snowy street with the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the background. They are holding snow shovels.
Photograph

International Transtar Eagle on the Road

Date: 1975
Description: International Transtar Eagle semi tractor with trailer.
Photograph

Edgewood Fence Removal

Date: 01 19 1945
Description: Edgewood fence along Wingra Drive entrance, which had been opened to the public after closing by the Dominican Sisters of Edgewood Academy. Shown is the ro...
Photograph

Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Neighbors of the Pomputis family and newspaper reporters wait on a highway near the farm where the confessed murderers were hiding.
Photograph

East Washington Avenue at Butler Street

Date: 1946
Description: View of the intersection of East Washington Avenue at Butler Street, towards the offices of the Capital Times newspaper.
Photograph

Model D-300 Truck

Date: 1938
Description: A man is sitting behind the wheel of an International Model D-300 truck used by the Montreal Tramways Company. A man in the back of the truck is holding a ...
Photograph

C-1 Truck with Power Company Crew

Date: 1935
Description: An International C-1 truck is parked along the side of a dirt road while men work on repairing damaged power poles. The original caption reads: "Nos. 109 a...
Photograph

IBP Labor Strife

Date: 1965
Description: Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations. The use of low wage workers led to con...
Print

International KBR-11 Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 10 1947
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of a Model KBR-11 truck-tractor with semi-trailer. Includes the text: "Winter Tr...
Photograph

Rural Mail Carrier

Date: 02 03 1978
Description: Winter scene with mail carrier in car putting mail in a mailbox. "Ralph Koll, Rural Mail Carrier. Somewhere in this monstrous snow drift is Helen Moldenha...
Photograph

Shoveling Snow on Rural Road

Date: 1905
Description: Winter scene of snow-covered road with two men shoveling snow. A dog is standing in the road near the men. The road is lined with fenced fields and telepho...
Photograph

New Water Tower

Date: 03 17 1997
Description: "The camera faces northeast from the water tower site."
Book or Pamphlet

Power for Every Need

Date: 1921
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising the Caterpillar tractor with a headline that reads: "Power for Every Need." It is illustrated with six photographs of ...
Photograph

Wrecker Stuck in the Mud

Date: 01 24 1944
Description: "Beach Road," Robert Doyle's caption in the Milwaukee Journal said it best, "Saidor travel Bureau never reports roads impassable as long as wheels a...
Drawing

Dragging In the Field

Date: 1945
Description: An elevated view of a man on a tractor harrowing a field on a hillside. A road and field run along the left side and a small field and trees appear on the ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 482-488

Date: 
Description: A man in motion moves upon good reason.

To create disorder
he must stop and settle down.
Photograph

Teams of U.S. Army Engineer Corps

Date: 1918
Description: View down snowy hill towards a team of U.S. Army Engineers traveling the Russian countryside in horse-drawn sleighs for the purpose of constructing a map o...
Photograph

Snow Scene

Date: 03 09 1936
Description: Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the cro...
Photograph

Man Driving Truck on Road

Date: 07 22 1927
Description: View from front of a man driving a truck on a road.

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