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| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Buildings, a watertower, and smokestacks at International Harvester's Plano Works. The factory was later known as "West Pullman Works." |
| Date: | 07 19 1935 |
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| Description: | Exterior of International Harvester's Auburn Works factory (formerly known as "Osborne Works"). |
| Date: | 05 30 1916 |
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| Description: | View down center of rural dirt road with houses along both sides in Black Hawk County. A man and horse are in a field on the left, near a sign that says: "... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across field of the International Harvester Company Charlotte branch building. The main factory building is surrounded by a series of smaller... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Deerfield Creamery Company. Two cars are parked in the lot in front of the factory. There are storage tanks in the background on the r... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the Kissel Motor Car Company. The elevated view shows the factory buildings, water towers, railroad cars and track. A dirigib... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down the road leading to the PET evaporated milk factory. A painted sign on the factory's exterior wall claims PET evaporated milk is "milk at its bes... |
| Date: | 08 1988 |
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| Description: | Ground breaking ceremony for the construction of Mountin's new Piggly Wiggly store in Mayville. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view down curving road and fields toward the works. Caption reads: "Milwaukee Vinegar Works And Red Star Yeast Company, Cudahy, Wis." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) fuselage in profile. The fuselage is carried by a truck, with a man sitting in the driver's se... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from field across pond towards Alfred Lawson's aircraft plant, with buildings and smokestacks. Men are working with a pile of lumber on the l... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from field of a long brick Lawson plant building with a smokestack. Several automobiles are parked near the plant on the left, and on the rig... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from field with tall plants towards one of the entrances to a factory building with the Lawson Airplane Company sign over it. |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | View across harvested field shocks of grain towards the long, two-story brick Carl Marty & Co. factory, featuring a large smokestack and a water tower. The... |
| Date: | 07 15 1929 |
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| Description: | View towards a man driving an industrial tractor pulling a grader on a road. The sign painted on the grader reads, in part: "Adams Road __ntainer No. 6." |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | View across dirt road towards a man in the driver's seat of a delivery truck. The truck is hauling a large section of pipe chained to rear wheels and resti... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | View from field towards men installing telephone poles with a large drill attached to the front of a truck. The sign on the truck reads: "The Shippers Rapi... |
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