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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: | 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: | 09 30 1933 |
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| Description: | A gas station in a Trachte building on the corner of Highway 51 (Monona Drive) and Highway 30 (Cottage Grove Road). "Johnson Gasoline," and "Defiance Spark... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
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| Description: | A car advertisement for a 1966 Chevelle on a billboard in a small unidentified Appalachian town. |
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| Description: | A billboard advertising the opening of a particular McDonald's restaurant. Express highways promoted the emergence of large signs that could be read at a d... |
| Date: | 12 12 1933 |
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| Description: | Milkman delivering a bottle of milk to a woman at her residential home. Parked in the foreground along a curb is an International Model M-2 milk truck owne... |
| Date: | 06 28 1933 |
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| Description: | International Model A-4 semi-tractor with sleeper cab and trailer parked in foreground, with the Iowa State Capitol Building in the background. The truck w... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | International bakery truck, with modified body to make it look like a loaf of bread, advertising Bamby bread. The truck was owned by Smith and Seely Inc., ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | A motor scooter in an advertisement with female model sitting on a Cushman Road King motor scooter. |
| Date: | 09 04 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man in the driver's seat of an International Special Delivery dairy truck parked in front of billboards. The International Spe... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of an International Scout II Rallye edition truck. |
| Date: | 12 03 1915 |
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| Description: | Car coming down a rural dirt road. Caption reads: "A view on Houston and Oklona Pike. Chickasaw Co. has over 100 miles of fine pikes and building more." A ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View from the foot of Carroll Street with the Angle Worm Station at Barnes boat landing on Lake Monona. Shows the Scutt II taken from the first succ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom... |
| Date: | 02 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Four panel trucks, one each with the following names painted on the sides: Madison Milk Producers, Mary Ann Bake Shop, McCoy's Ice Cream, Valley Springs Fa... |
| Date: | 09 01 1934 |
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| Description: | Three automobiles parked at Licari Tire Co., 767 W. Washington Avenue, featuring Gillette tires, one automobile is advertising Licari Tire Co. and Gillette... |
| Date: | 12 20 1933 |
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| Description: | Kennedy Dairy Company, 621-629 W. Washington Avenue, milk truck, advertises their products, Selected Guernsey Milk, Pasteurized Milk, and Kennedy's Ice Cre... |
| Date: | 11 09 1930 |
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| Description: | Profile view of the right side of an Oscar Mayer bacon truck made by Diamond T parked near a building. The sign on the back of the truck reads: "Oscar Maye... |
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