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| Date: | 07 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Inside of Saturday dinner menu for the "North American." Includes drawings of Niagara Falls, New York, Old Fort Mackinac Island, Michigan, Michigan Bouleva... |
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| Description: | A colored advertising card that was issued by the Land Department of the Wisconsin Central Railroad in order to promote the sale of railroad-owned land in ... |
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| Description: | Advertising card for Wisconsin Central Railroad land for sale at $5 an acre. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a horse-drawn coach with passengers inside as well as on the roof. Many gifts and pieces of luggage are on top. Four horses are pulling the... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Badger State Tobacco Works of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the building, men working on boats moored near the water... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Milwaukee Willow Works, a manufacturer of children's carriages, willow ware, and toys, with a three-quarter view of the company building,... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of G.E. Evans, a grower of cultivated cranberries from New Lisbon, Wisconsin. Includes an illustration by (A.?) R.R. Richards of people working ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Oshkosh Packing & Provision Company, a meat packer and preserver, with an illustration of the company buildings on the waterfront, with w... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Plankinton Packing Company, a pork and beef packer and provision dealer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Includes an elevated view of the company b... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Jefferson County Clerk's office, with a three-quarter view of a building with a clock tower and people walking near the building. Printed... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Association, with a three-quarter view of the association building, people walking, riding horses, and dr... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Bonduel, Wisconsin, with a man driving a U.S. R.F.D. mail wagon along a road by a fenced yard, a barn, and a mailbox. Pr... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, with a woman in front of a house retrieving mail from a mailbox and a horse-drawn U.S. R.F.D. ma... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Artistic rendering of the Equitable Building at 401 N. Michigan Avenue. Includes the text "make yours the prestige address in Chicago — the dramatic new Eq... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Parker Pen Company, with a three-quarter view of the company building, with people walking on the sidewalk, and a streetcar, automobiles,... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Langenberger Construction Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with an elevated three-quarter view of the company building and traffic in the... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the New Stoughton Company, manufacturers of truck cabs and bodies, wagons, bob sleds, spreaders, and "Stoughton Cushioned Trailers," with a t... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | The front (top) and back (bottom) of an advertisement for farm land in northern Wisconsin. This card advertises the abundance of clover crop with an image ... |
| Date: | 07 1897 |
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| Description: | A promotional card displaying a man in overalls standing by his large rye crops, near the road. The caption reads, "This view made from a photograph take... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Collage depicting multiple McCormick buildings reconstructed or built after the Chicago Fire. The caption at bottom reads, "Rebuilt Chicago. — Buildings Er... |
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