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Book or Pamphlet

International Auto Buggy

Date: 1909
Description: Catalog cover for the International auto buggy featuring a color illustration of a woman driving one of the vehicles. The IH product name is another exampl...
Book or Pamphlet

International Auto Buggies and Auto Wagons

Date: 1910
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for International auto buggies and auto wagons. Features an illustration of a woman in fine dress, gloves and hat at...
Photograph

Crossing Guard Helping Student

Date: 09 1956
Description: A crossing guard helps a young student to cross the street at a cross walk at Abert and Green Bay streets in Milwaukee. Two cars (one a Chevrolet), have en...
Photograph

Women in Safe Driving Class

Date: 01 25 1949
Description: Charlotte Holmes (with tire) and Mrs. Lee (Marjorie) Edwards (with wrench) change a tire during a class session at Madison Vocational School's first post-w...
Postcard

New Year Greetings

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard of a family in a car. It is decorated with flowers, foliage and ribbons. The parents are inside the car, and the son is sitting on the hoo...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1925
Description: View down the street of a retail area. On either side of the street, there are storefronts, pedestrians and parked cars. Just before a steep hill is a rail...
Book or Pamphlet

International School Bus Brochure

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for International School Buses. Features a color illustration of an International C-Line school bus with driver and studen...
Photograph

Bridge Across Pecatonica River

Date: 1929
Description: View across the bridge on Main Street. There are two cars and a woman and child walking across the bridge. A Chevrolet dealership is on the right.
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1926
Description: View down middle of Main Street from the intersection at Deerfield Street. There are shops on both sides of the street. Two automobiles are coming down the...
Print

Milwaukee Journal Tour Club Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Milwaukee Journal Tour Club, a national automobile club, with a three-quarter view of the company building surrounded by scenes of a hote...
Photograph

Greenlee Family in Car

Date: 1906
Description: Two men, two women, and a boy are posing sitting in an automobile parked in the yard next to a frame house. Probably Eugene J. Greenlee and son Eugene in t...
Photograph

Children Exiting an International School Bus

Date: 1930
Description: View down side of road of a group of children exiting an International school bus. On the front and side of the bus is painted the "International" emblem. ...
Photograph

Family Driving

Date: 1903
Description: George S. Parker and family seated in their car, one of the first automobiles in Janesville. Behind them is a couple in another car.
Photograph

Learning to Drive

Date: 07 01 1954
Description: Two young people are examining a wall chart depicting traffic lanes, cross walks, and intersections. There are movable adhesive rectangles representing car...
Photograph

Yellow Scout Pickup at Kitt Peak National Observatory

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Description: Man driving yellow Scout on road near the visitor center for the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Men and women are standing near the entrance, and the obse...
Postcard

The Family in a Car

Date: 
Description: A smiling Anna Fiebelkorn is driving a touring car. William Fiebelkorn is next to her with two children in front of him. In the back seat are a woman with ...
Photograph

Group in Open Vehicle

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Description: Group of people riding in a vehicle with the top down. The male driver is wearing a hat and goggles. The woman are wearing fancy hats.
Photograph

Emma Schoelkopf Driving a Ford

Date: 1907
Description: View from street towards Emma Schoelkopf who is driving a Ford automobile. On a tree behind her is a sign reading "School Grounds, Safety First, Autos Driv...
Photograph

Emma Schoelkopf in a Ford Touring Car

Date: 1914
Description: Emma Schoelkopf is sitting in the driver's seat of a Ford touring car. She is wearing a light-colored summer dress and smiling. Emma, the wife of Louis Sch...
Photograph

Lucy Rumsey Holt Driving a Car

Date: 1910
Description: Lucy Rumsey Holt driving a car. Her father Captain I.P. Rumsey, a Civil War veteran, is sitting on the passenger side. Men are standing in front of the Hol...

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