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Poster

Repairs Department

Date: 1917
Description: Sign for the Repairs Department. If you want to find the Repairs Department, just "Follow the Arrow."
Poster

Repairs Department

Date: 1917
Description: Sign for the Repairs Department. If you want to find the Repairs Department, just "Follow the Arrow."
Photograph

Train Wreck

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view of the wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Corliss. A large crowd of men are watching as a Bucyrus crane is lifting a car b...
Photograph

Railroad Track Clean-up

Date: 1910
Description: Wisconsin Central Railway locomotive #2035 and a work train on a track clean-up assignment. Locomotive #102 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 18...
Photograph

Streetcar Repair Shop

Date: 1910
Description: Interior view of the repair shop of the Madison Traction Company on Fair Oaks Avenue. An open streetcar is on the ramp, with a closed car from the Wingra P...
Photograph

Training World War I Mechanics

Date: 1918
Description: Training classes for University of Wisconsin student cadets in the repair of automobiles and trucks during World War I.
Photograph

Motor Truck Outside Repair Shop

Date: 1910
Description: Two men wearing bowler hats are sitting in an International Model M truck parked outside Laun Machine Co. A sign for the company is painted on the brick w...
Photograph

Chassis of International Model M Truck

Date: 1915
Description: Exposed chassis of an International Model M truck propped up in a garage or factory.
Photograph

Road Construction with Titan Tractor

Date: 1913
Description: A man operating a tractor with road roller on a small town street. The tractor may be a Titan 30-60.
Photograph

Man Standing on Wagon in Town

Date: 1910
Description: Panoramic view of man standing atop lumber loaded onto a horse-drawn flatbed wagon. The wagon is stopped on a road construction or repair site. The "Hotel ...
Photograph

Prisoners Working

Date: 1915
Description: View down road of a group of prisoners wearing striped jumpsuits doing road work while supervisors look on. A horse-drawn wagon is parked near a fence, and...
Photograph

East Side of Main Street

Date: 1913
Description: Exterior of the "General Merchandise - A.C. Hanold groceries" and the "garage and auto livery."
Photograph

A.C. Hanold Store

Date: 1913
Description: Exterior of the "General Merchandise - A.C. Hanold groceries" and the "garage and auto livery." A man stands outside the store.
Photograph

Main Street Looking South

Date: 1912
Description: View looking down unpaved Main Street, with wagons and carts parked near the curb on the left near a building with a sign for a "Garage." Pedestrians are a...
Postcard

Masonic Temple

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard of an exterior view from the street of the Masonic Temple on a corner. The Peter Pfeffer haberdasher shop is on the ground floor at t...
Photograph

Russians Working on Railroad

Date: 1918
Description: View down railroad tracks toward a group of Russian residents working to clear another set of railroad tracks running alongside. In the far distance are tr...
Photograph

Interior of Bowar Bros. Garage

Date: 1915
Description: Interior view of the Bowar Bros. Garage. On two walls are banks of drawers and cubby holes for tools and parts. On the right are more shelves for tools. Am...
Photograph

Nieuport Waiting for Repairs

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Damaged airplanes sitting on wooden planks. Captioned: "A Nieuport 'sent up' for repairs."
Photograph

Doc Copeland Repairing Canoe

Date: 1916
Description: Doc Copeland repairing a canoe after it had run onto a spike on the river.
Photograph

Doc Copeland

Date: 1914
Description: Doc Copeland is sitting in a chair mending a fishing net.

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