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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wadhams Oil Company, with an illustration of various red and yellow oil containers against a black circle. The motto, "Emphatically Indep... |
| Date: | 08 28 1937 |
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| Description: | Wadhams Oil Company float in the Elks Parade, with a child "driving" a Mobile Oil Flying Red Horse symbol. The float is on E. Doty Street with the Post Off... |
| Date: | 12 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Springfield Corners view, with a Wadhams filling station at the crossroads, and houses and a garage. |
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| Description: | Odie's Gas Station (Wadhams) at 4408 W. Lisbon Avenue, located on the northwest corner of W. Lisbon Avenue and N. 44th Street. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Alexander C. Eschweiler, a well-known architect in Milwaukee, designed this exotic station for the Wadhams Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee in 1926. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Built in 1927, this small Wadhams station, located at 1647 South Seventy-sixth Street, is one of a handful of the company's signature pagoda stations still... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | This Tudor Revival-style Wadhams Service Station at 302 Ellis Street opened in 1931. The Kewaunee Enterprise proclaimed it a "very fine improvement in the ... |
| Date: | 06 06 1938 |
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| Description: | South Park Street (Hwy 12 & 14 & 18), looking North from the intersection at Olin Avenue. The view includes Moore's Wadhams Mobilgas Service Station, 1129 ... |
| Date: | 08 18 1963 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of an abandoned "Bonus" gasoline station. This station was formerly a Wadham's Oil and Grease Company station. The Wadham's chain, headquarte... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Hawkins Service Station, located at 309 Seventh Avenue. The station has a pagoda style roof typical of stations designed between 1917 and 1930 by Alexande... |
| Date: | 11 13 1933 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright's 1929 L-29 Cord Phaeton automobile and front end view of overturned Choles Floral Company truck at an accident scene at Lakeview north ... |
| Date: | 11 13 1933 |
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| Description: | Long distance view looking south, of Frank Lloyd Wright's 1929 L-29 Cord Phaeton automobile and an overturned Choles Floral Company delivery truck, driven ... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Fred Schmidt installed a gas pump outside his family's blacksmith business in 1911. At 28407 North Lake Drive, the station's location was prime for automob... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Herman Hanson built this small rectangular brick station before the spring of 1928. Motorists would have known from the bright red tile roof that this litt... |
| Date: | 01 31 1935 |
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| Description: | A Ford V-8 Yellow Cab Co. taxicab on East Washington Avenue. In the background are (left to right) St. Patrick's school, 630 East Washington Avenue; reside... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | This map shows road surfaces, construction, flying fields, seaplane landings, populations of cities and towns, and ferry routes of Wisconsin and some of th... |
| Date: | 01 19 1948 |
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| Description: | Hearing at the Dane County Court House attended by city officials and fuel dealers concerning temporary fuel oil shortages. Pictured clockwise around the t... |
| Date: | 04 1955 |
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| Description: | Three men visit at the corner of the Plainville Grocery. There are many signs and logos on the storefront: "Coca-Cola," "Peerless Beer," "Model Smoking Tob... |
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