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Circus Wagon

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Description: A Cole Brothers Circus wagon sits on a flatbed truck, near a railroad yard, awaiting transport by the Shea-Matson Machinery Mover & Millwrights company.
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Mobile X-Ray Trailer

Date: 1945
Description: Wisconsin State Board of Health Division of Tuberculosis X-Ray survey bus and trailer.
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Early Highway Trailer

Date: 1915
Description: An auto-trailer, an early trailer manufactured by the Highway Trailer Company of Edgerton. The company began by manufacturing trailers designed for farmer...
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Log Cabin used in Presidential Campaign

Date: 1888
Description: Log cabin on trailer pulled by two horses used in the presidential campaign in Wisconsin to promote the candidacy of Benjamin Harrison.
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Filling Up the Historymobile

Date: 04 01 1957
Description: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin's Historymobile at the Clark Service Station, 2631 University Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Tschudy (Jake and Irene),...
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Mobile Labor Union Office

Date: 11 1955
Description: California farm workers, somewhere near Salinas, wave to the union official who had visited them with the mobile union office of Packinghouse Workers Local...
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Vito Marcantonio

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Description: Vito Marcantonio, New York congressman, with some future voters. He is standing outdoors with a group of young boys in front of his office, which is in a t...
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Dairy Days Parade

Date: 1950
Description: Bernard Arms holding a firearm poses on a parade float decorated in an autumn theme, including a stuffed bear, fox, and squirrel. The parade was a part of ...
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WMVS-TV Mobile Unit Filming Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

Date: 1961
Description: The operators of the mobile unit of WMVS-TV, a community station out of Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools, film an interview with Roy Rogers and Dale ...
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Race Car Built by Ideal Body Company

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Description: Race car number 6 sponsored by National Auto Elec. The body of the car was built by the Ideal Body Company. A man wearing a helmet and goggles is sitting i...
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Oscar Mayer Wienermobile

Date: 1950
Description: Wienermobile in the Oscar Mayer parking lot. The driver is seated in the cab, but is obscured by the side mirror. Employee cars and other Oscar Mayer vehic...
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Christmas Tree from Wisconsin

Date: 1983
Description: Congressman David R. Obey (standing below the C) greets a delegation from Wisconsin that accompanied the official Capitol Christmas Tree cut in the Chequam...
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New Stoughton Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the New Stoughton Company, manufacturers of truck cabs and bodies, wagons, bob sleds, spreaders, and "Stoughton Cushioned Trailers," with a t...
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Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, wearing a blue shirt, is standing in the foreground. Behind him, also in a blue shirt, is Florida Congressman Bill You...
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Knowles and Laird Parade Float

Date: 07 17 1966
Description: Parade float parked by the side of a road. It is advertising Republican candidates running for office. The portraits on the float are of Wisconsin Governor...
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Wisconsin Pavilion Under Construction

Date: 1964
Description: View of the Wisconsin Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair under construction. The steel frame of the building is visible behind a sign for Thatcher Construct...
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Lake Geneva Auto Station

Date: 06 02 1928
Description: View across street towards a convertible automobile with a fender-mounted spare tire parked in front of the Lake Geneva Auto Station on the south side of t...
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Missile Replacement

Date: 1986
Description: Three people standing in a field watching a missile replacement (large trailer lifted at an angle behind a barbed wire fence) at an Mx installation. Near t...
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Unloading a Boat from Railroad Car

Date: 09 04 1941
Description: Ernst Schmidt, second from left, and two other men prepare to unload a 17-foot Lyman motorboat named "Islander" from an Illinois Central freight car. "Auto...
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Jefferson Prairie Historic Marker

Date: 05 16 1952
Description: Great grandchildren of Ole Knutson Nattestad, the first Norwegian settler in Wisconsin, Sonja Kay and John Carlton, standing with their parents, Mr. and Mr...

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