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Poster

International Air Mail Delivery Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1939
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks. Features a color illustration of an air mail delivery truck next to a twin propeller cargo plane. Poster text ...
Print

Timmerman Field

Date: 1957
Description: Advertising brochure for Timmerman Field, the successor to Curtiss-Wright Airport. Curtiss-Wright Airport, which had been established in 1929, was purchas...
Print

TWA Convair 880 Jetliners

Date: 05 1962
Description: A magazine advertisement designed by the Foote, Cone and Belding agency for its client, Trans World Airlines. The advertisement was designed to dramaticall...
Poster

Air Show Program

Date: 08 18 1935
Description: Poster advertising the air show held to mark the dedication of the airport in Waukesha, an event sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club. Present to dedica...
Postcard

Attractions of Green Bay

Date: 1957
Description: Composite image of "Packerland U.S.A." including prominent attractions: Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers, NFL Football team; the Brown County A...
Book or Pamphlet

Felker Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 
Description: Catalog of the Felker Oil Equipment Company of Marshfield, featuring color illustration depicting a home heating oil delivery truck of their manufacture an...
Postcard

Akron Soap Box Derby

Date: 
Description: All-American Soap Box Derby at Derby Downs. Shows an elevated view of the "Derby Downs Hill with Grandstands and Finish Line. Famous Goodyear Zeppelin Dock...
Map or Atlas

Road Map of Wisconsin and the United States

Date: 1933
Description: A road map of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, showing the populations of cities and villages, state and federal highways, national forests, state...
Map or Atlas

Official Wisconsin Airport Map

Date: 1950
Description: A map from the Wisconsin identifying the locations airports and other landing facilities in the state. On the opposite side the map includes an alphabetica...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Transportation Map : Highways, Railroads, Canals, Air Lanes, and Dredged Channels

Date: 1939
Description: This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Transportation Map : Highways, Railroads, Canals, Air Lanes, and Dredged Channels

Date: 1944
Description: This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ...
Map or Atlas

State Postal Map, Wisconsin

Date: 1969
Description: This Post Office Department map identifies post offices, summer post offices, rural stations, highway post offices, Post Office sectional centers, rural de...
Map or Atlas

Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1946
Description: A map showing the roads, railroads, towns, cities and villages, streams and lakes, airports, schools, churches, cemeteries, and golf courses in Kenosha Cou...
Map or Atlas

Waukesha County

Date: 02 1956
Description: This 1956 map of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, roads, railroads, dams, airports, par...
Map or Atlas

Racine County and Kenosha County

Date: 1987
Description: This 1987 map of Racine and Kenosha counties, Wisconsin, shows towns, sections, cities and villages, zip code boundaries, highways and roads, bicycle route...
Map or Atlas

Truax Field Long-Range Plan

Date: 1970
Description: Color coded map. Legend in the top left hand corner reads: "EXISTING AIRPORT PAVEMENT" (purple), "FUTURE 5-YEAR DEVELOPMENT" (bright pink), "ULTIMATE AIRPO...
Map or Atlas

Three Lakes Area Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map of Three Lakes shows forest fire lookout towers, picnic grounds, an airport, roads, and railroad. The map features text boxes on the Village of Th...
Map or Atlas

La Crosse, Wisconsin

Date: 1970
Description: This map is intended for tourists of La Crosse. The cover features images of farms and natural land and reads: "friends are but strangers... we have yet to...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

President John F. Kennedy at Airport

Date: 11 21 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "President John F. Kennedy greets a well wisher at airport shortly after his arrival here 11/22. In the...
Map or Atlas

Heffernen Plan for Routing Highways and Key Arterials in and Around the City of Green Bay

Date: 1950
Description: This map shows portions of highway remaining unchanged, proposed relocations, connecting county trunk roads existing or proposed, existing arterials, and e...

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