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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering service featuring a color illustration of a "Red Baby" farm truck. The company offered a $1,000 prize to the deale... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International trucks. Features a color illustration of a truck at a wharf or dock with a large ship in the background. |
| Date: | 03 28 1939 |
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| Description: | American Automobile Association display window showing Wisconsin travel brochures and pictures of tourist destinations around the state. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the junction of Congress and First Streets downtown, featuring cars, pedestrians, storefronts, and railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View down a street in a business district. A statue has a sign that reads: "If you can't fight, your dollars can," stands near an intersection. The First N... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down retail street. Cars are parked along the curbs. The stores include: Victrola's dealer, a cafe, a recreation parlor, a restaurant, a clothing stor... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A busy commercial area. Cars are parked diagonally on either side of the street. There is a Chevrolet repair shop, gas station, hotel, Ford repair shop, an... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View down commercial street. The shops are: Crandon Baking Company, a drugstore, the Hotel Hellstrom and Livery, a restaurant, First National Bank, a baker... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down a commercial street, with an automobile coming down the street. There is a soda/ice cream shop which offers tobacco, cigars, and candy. The City ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wm. Ewig Company, an insurance company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with full-color depictions of a scene with three traffic accidents involv... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A two-sided map of the state of Wisconsin. The front includes towns and major cities as well as state and county trunk highways. The back includes a smalle... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street. Shops and parked cars line the street. On the near left, there is a billboard for Granger rough cut tobacco, and there is a barbers... |
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| Description: | Lithograph of an International Harvester tractor trailer in Cuba. Advertisement also highlights Harvester service and sales locations in Cuba. At the bott... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | This map details automobile routes throughout the state as well as parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois. Cities, the Mississippi River, Lake Mic... |
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