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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad. Features a woodcut of a train near the top of the page. |
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| Description: | Advertising card for Wisconsin Central Railroad land for sale at $5 an acre. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Railroad advertising card showing a mail carrier on horseback on a plank road in 1776, and mail being delivered by train in 1876. A woman with two children... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Chicago and Northwestern Railway pass belonging to Reverend Jackson Kemper. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | 1861 Racine and Mississippi Railroad Pass belonging to Jackson Kemper. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Stage Company Pass belonging to Reverend Kemper. The pass bear engravings of a train and a stage coach. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | 1859 Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad pass belonging to S.S. Merrill. Pass is signed by George Dunlap. |
| Date: | 11 08 1860 |
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| Description: | Receipt for a package delivered to Brees' Express via Morris & Essex Railroad. There is an engraving of a train traveling through a rural landscape near th... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Engraved bird's-eye view illustration of the "McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's Works," including railroad cars, smoke from smokestacks and factory wo... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company. There is an engraving of a train and a list of the officers of the company. |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Edison Portland Cement Company, founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1902. The company introduced the use of long kilns. Caption reads: "Plant... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Chilton Branch of the Falk Jung & Borchert Brewing Company, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It includes, on the left, an elevated ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the John Gund Brewing Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin, with an elevated view of the brewery complex on the left. On the right is the company ... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with an elevated view of the brewery complex, including an elevator and other stora... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Phillip Best Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with three separate proscenium views of the Empire Brewery, the South Side Brewery,... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Buckstaff-Edwards Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, manufacturers of coffins and caskets and wholesale dealers in caskets and undertaking supp... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Kewaskum Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Washington County, Wisconsin, with a Native American man wearing buckskin clothes and leggings ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Stinson Tractor Company, located at the intersection of Central Avenue and 16th Street. The illustration was included in a booklet prod... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated-view illustration of the John Lauson Manufacturing Company factory. The company made Lauson tractors and Lauson Frost King gasoline engines. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Collage depicting multiple McCormick buildings reconstructed or built after the Chicago Fire. The caption at bottom reads, "Rebuilt Chicago. — Buildings Er... |
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