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Date: | 08 04 1931 |
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Description: | Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad freight car with "Oscar Mayer's Meats of Good Taste" advertisement on the side. |
Date: | 1932 |
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Description: | View from across street of the Washburn and Woodman Bank building, erected by C.C. Washburn and Cyrus Woodman. The bank was established in 1846 and operate... |
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Description: | Quarter-length formal oval painting of Samuel Marshall, (1820-1907), banker, co-founder and President of the Marshall & Ilsley Bank. |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
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Description: | State Fair barker announcing side show attractions to a crowd of children, featuring "Midget City, the World's Tiniest Entertainers" and "Baby Thelma, 619 ... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | A view from the 200 block of State Street looking toward the Wisconsin State Capitol. This urban scene includes marquees for the Orpheum Theatre and the Ca... |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | A young woman dressed in a bathing suit and wading boots poses for a promotional photograph for the Wisconsin cranberry industry at Thunder Lake Marsh. Tw... |
Date: | 03 14 1957 |
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Description: | Elevated view across street towards the storefront and delivery vehicles of Spic and Span Dry Cleaning. |
Date: | 09 28 1942 |
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Description: | Highway billboard advertising Wisconsin cheese for the Department of Agriculture and Markets. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Sample tables in the Grain Exchange Room of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The Milwaukee Grain Exchange was a pioneer in grain trading with their develo... |
Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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Description: | Donut queen posed for advertising campaign. The female model is holding a box of donuts and is sitting on a large clock bearing the slogan: "It's Always Do... |
Date: | 07 1927 |
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Description: | Car parked underneath the entrance gate to the Island Resort at the Wisconsin Dells, 25 miles from the Dells on Highway 12-16 near Mauston. Entrance gate a... |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | Two people driving a Farmall Cub through an urban area. They are towing a wagon with movie advertisement, announcing "The Farmer's Daughter," starring Lore... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | The 600 block of Williamson Street ("Machinery Row") with the old Fauerbach Brewery in the background. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Families gathered outside of Werner's Drugstore on annuity pay day. A sign reads "Medicine sold here" in Ho-Chunk, German, and Norwegian. The Ho-Chunk syll... |
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Description: | Interior of Kendall Des Jardin's drugstore on Broad Street. Two men are talking with a young boy inside the store. |
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Description: | There were several businesses in Greendale, including a Co-op grocery store, variety store, post office, movie theater and a doctor and dentist office. The... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Beechnut Gum girls, posed in front of an automobile, promoting the product for a national advertising campaign. |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | The front of the Eilert Farm Equipment Company, an International Harvester dealership. The image was on the cover of a brochure titled the "McCormick-Deeri... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a costume parade on State Street, at the corner of State Street and Gilman Street. On both sides of the street are drugstores. The one on ... |
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