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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers leaving the Kissell Motor Car Company have their identification badges checked. The Hartford company was then building trucks of the Four Wheel Dr... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Trucks of the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville manufactured at the Kissel Motor Car Company plant in Hartford during World War I, thus uniting in o... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Kissel truck owned by Washington County entering a gravel pit. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the Kissel Motor Car Company. The elevated view shows the factory buildings, water towers, railroad cars and track. A dirigib... |
| Date: | 06 1984 |
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| Description: | "Reconstruction work is being done on Hwy 28, between Kewaskum and Hwy 41. This view is from the intersection of 28 and 41, looking due east." |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Site of Libby McNeil and Libby canning company. In 1968, workers in Hartford staged a walkout to support Obreros Unidos (United Workers) to show dissatisfa... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm worke... |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| "Bright beer" storage tank by Dunck Tank Works, Milwaukee, c 1910. Used by Stevens Point Brewery, Stevens Point, c 1915-1995.(Museum object #2007.83.2) |
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| Desk used by Milwaukee Alder Vel Phillips, made by the Northwestern Furniture Company for Milwaukee City Hall, 1895. (Museum object #2007.16.1) |
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| 1941 Model FL motorcycle manufactured by the Harley-Davidson Motor Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1941. (Museum object #2003.19.1) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Elto Cub outboard motor made by the Evinrude Motors Division of Outboard Marine and Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, WI, 1939. (Museum object #1997.35.3) |
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| Schlitz "Sunshine Vitamin D" Beer Can featuring Continental Can Co.'s new crown top design, 1936. (Museum Object 2011.77.1) |
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| Description: | View of a stone quarry next to a river. Tracks are leading into an arched entrance. Caption reads: "Stone Quarry, So. Germantown, Wis." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Kissel auto plant in between the railroad and the river. A dirigible and bi-plane have been cut and pasted onto the image. Caption rea... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the aftermath of a fire at a canning factory. Men are inspecting the charred ruins, which are smoking. Buildings and a church tow... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View of the railroad yards. Factories and warehouses are on the left. Caption reads: "R. R. Yards, Hartford, Wis." |
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| Description: | View down road toward the Jackson with the depot on the right. A church is across the railroad tracks. Caption reads: "Centre Jackson, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the three-story brick factory building, with a taller, square central tower that has symmetrical two-story wings. Identified on ... |
| Date: | 10 1931 |
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| Description: | John Clarence Cudahy, left, and Walter Vail Johnston are resting against a split rail fence during the Washington County Fox Hunt. Both were members of the... |
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