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Bock & Mohr Fur Farms

Date: 1915
Description: Text on front reads: "Bock & Mohr Fur Farms, Inc. Rochester, Wisconsin. World's Largest and Most Beautiful Mink and Fitch Ranch. The Choicest of Furs and B...
Photograph

Fleet of Trucks

Date: 07 09 1926
Description: View from sidewalk towards a fleet of eight trucks parked at an angle in a street. There are men sitting in the driver's seat of each truck. There are two ...
Photograph

Rochester Church

Date: 1915
Description: English Settlement Church.
Photograph

International Model S-26 Truck Delivering Coal to Residential Home

Date: 1930
Description: Worker unloading coal from a truck onto a chute on Seneca Parkway in Rochester. The chute appears to be leading to a residential home. However, there is c...
Photograph

Panoramic View of Rochester and the Beaver Valley

Date: 1894
Description: Panoramic view of Rochester and the Beaver Valley. Junction of the Beaver River and the Ohio River. Settlements and multiple bridges are in the background.
Photograph

Sibley's Department Store Delivery Truck

Date: 1937
Description: Men place boxes from a rolling cart on a loading dock onto an International C-300 truck owned by the Sibley, Lindsay, and Curr Company department store. On...
Photograph

Car Driving in Downtown District

Date: 1927
Description: A car drives on a main street in a downtown business district.
Photograph

Sewing Class with Mrs. Jones

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Description: Young girls at work in the Rochester Short Course sewing laboratory, with Nellie Kedzie Jones supervising their work. Many girls are doing handwork and som...
Photograph

Rochester Fuel and Feed Company Truck

Date: 1925
Description: A man filling the oil tank of an International Model 33 truck owned by the Rochester Fuel and Feed Company.
Photograph

Man Delivering Ice with International Truck

Date: 1930
Description: Man removing a block of ice from an International truck for delivery in a residential neighborhood. The house in the background is at 462 Seneca Parkway. T...
Photograph

St. Marvis Farm Buildings

Date: 11 18 1936
Description: Two men stand in the distance outside one of the farm buildings near a field at St. Marvis farm, where a McCormick-Deering milk cooler is installed. There ...
Photograph

Amish at Bus Stop

Date: 2002
Description: Elevated view of a group of Amish gathered together outside a bus terminal.
Photograph

Delivery of 4-H Accounting Award

Date: 05 20 1936
Description: 4-H County Agent Ray Aune delivers a McCormick-Deering cream separator to Miss Luella Pagel. Ms. Pagel was the winner of the state 4-H Accounting Award. Pi...
Photograph

Union House

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior of the Union House. Three men are standing on the sidewalk in front.
Photograph

International Model A-8 Truck

Date: 12 22 1937
Description: View from side of road of an International Model A-8 truck marked "C.P. Ward, Inc." hauling a trailer with a large crane. One man is driving the truck, ano...
Photograph

Appliance Delivery

Date: 1937
Description: Two men unload what appears to be an oven from an International D-35 truck owned by the Sibley, Lindsay, and Curr Company department stores. The truck is p...
Photograph

Bottomley House

Date: 1925
Description: The Bottemley Residence, with the family working on crops in the yard in the foreground.
Map or Atlas

Bottomley First Floor

Date: 1925
Description: Sketch of the first floor plan of the house of Mr. Edwin Bottomley.
Map or Atlas

Bottomley Farm

Date: 1925
Description: A map of the farm planned by Edwin Bottomley in 1844.
Photograph

White Star Bakery

Date: 1935
Description: Two International trucks used by the White Star Bakery are parked outside the bakery's storefront at 1473 Main Street. Each truck's driver stands beside hi...

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