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Horse-Drawn Patent Medicines Wagon
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A traveling salesman with Willson's Monarch Labs is standing beside the horse-drawn wagon that took him on sales routes in rural Wisconsin. Willson manufactured patent medicines, extracts, spices, items for farm animals and toilet articles. The horses are wearing fly-nets.
January 7, 1937
Willson Monarch Laboratory
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WHi 6293
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Willson Monarch Remedies Wagon
1935
Two salesmen stand beside one of the Willson's Monarch Remedies horse-drawn wagons. Willson's sold patent medicines, spices, extracts, flavorings, and "toilet articles."
Willson Monarch Labs Salesman Card
1935
Business card of Edward Rohloff, a traveling salesman for Willson's Monarch Laboratory, a manufacturer of patent medications in the early part of the 1900s. The back of the card lists the notable p...
O.L. Oleson, Agent
Advertising card for O.L. Oleson of Ramona, Wisconsin who sold patent medicines. The card features a photograph of Oleson seated in a wagon advertising Willson's Extracts pulled by two horses.
Medicine Wagon Driving through Town
Dr. Eugene Krohn driving his medicine wagon. The man behind the wagon is either Rufus Jones or Warren C. Jones.
Dr. Krohn Family Medicine Wagon
View from street of Dr. Krohn Family Medicine Wagon pulled by a team of two horses in front of a crowd of people posed standing in front of the First National Bank on Main Street.
Horse-Drawn Mower at McCormick Works
1908
A horse-drawn mower in the yard at McCormick Works. In the background on the left is the horse-drawn photographer's wagon.
