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Highway Map Wisconsin

Date: 1935
Description: This road map shows automobile routes across the state of Wisconsin. Advertisements for various hotels are featured along the bottom edge of the map, while...
Photograph

Aerial View of Wisconsin Steel Works

Date: 1970
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works (factory).
Photograph

Larsen's Teal Lake Resort

Date: 1935
Description: Automobile parked next to log cabin situated near shore of Teal Lake.
Map or Atlas

Rand McNally Junior Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1927
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...
Photograph

Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 08 12 1931
Description: Fauerbach Brewery on the right, looking south on South Blount from Williamson Street toward Lake Monona.
Photograph

Trapper's Lake Tavern

Date: 1937
Description: Gas pump and automobile next to a tavern on county Road D near Clam Lake.
Postcard

Lake Lawn Resort

Date: 1909
Description: Hand-colored view of the Lake Lawn Resort. Delavan Lake is in the background on the left. There is an automobile parked under a roofed entryway that leads ...
Print

Cover of McCormick-Deering 1939 Calendar

Date: 1938
Description: "Your 1939 Calendar" published for International Harvester farm equipment dealers. The cover features a painting of the Swiss Alps.
Photograph

Fauerbach Brewing Co. Buildings

Date: 04 01 1938
Description: Two men are standing next in front of two automobiles parked at the rear of the Fauerbach Brewing Co., 651-653 Williamson Street. The Lake Monona shoreline...
Photograph

Edgewater Hotel Opening

Date: 08 12 1948
Description: Edgewater Hotel at the foot of Wisconsin Avenue. Lake Mendota is in the background.
Photograph

Lyndale Bay Resort

Date: 1935
Description: View from water of people along the shoreline of the Upper Eau Claire Lake. In the background are trees and three cabins, each with an automobile parked ne...
Map or Atlas

Official AAA Road Map, Wisconsin

Date: 1936
Description: This road map shows the major roads, cities, lakes, and rivers of Wisconsin and parts of the neighboring states and Canada, as well as advertisements for t...
Photograph

Blied Building Remodeling

Date: 05 09 1949
Description: Elevated view from Park Hotel Roof of the remodeling of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street. Other West Main Street businesses visible are Madison Bank...
Map or Atlas

Caspar's New Automobile Road Map of Southeastern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois : Including from Lake Michigan the Territory of 200 Miles North and 100 Miles West

Date: 1918
Description: This map shows counties, cities, towns, villages, summer resorts, lakes, rivers, creeks, wagon roads, roads, railroads, and electric lines. The authentic a...
Photograph

Men with Scout II Launching Boat

Date: 1978
Description: Two men with Scout at a boat launch. One man is driving, and the other man is wearing waders and is standing in the water holding the back of the boat. The...
Photograph

State Office Building

Date: 1958
Description: An aerial view of the construction of a new wing on a state office building. Automobiles are parked in a log along Lake Monona.
Photograph

Model 100 Two Tone International Pickup

Date: 1973
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of two tone, (flame red with white) pickup with open truck bed parked in the grass. In the background a man is fishing ...
Photograph

Looking North From Capitol Square

Date: 03 1954
Description: Elevated view looking north from the Wisconsin State Capitol down Hamilton Street. The Belmont Hotel and various storefronts are along Capitol Square.
Map or Atlas

Cities Service Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1932
Description: This map shows automobile routes across Wisconsin and parts of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa. The Mississippi River, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior,...
Photograph

Belmont Hotel Window Painting

Date: 06 18 1952
Description: William F. Guethlein, Sauk City, resting on a scaffold on the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street. He has been repairing and painting the hotel windows...

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