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Ritter Automobile Company

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of the Ritter Automobile Company located at 212 S. Pinckney Street. Signs on the front read Ritter Automobile Co., Hudson Cars," and "Auto Wa...
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Two Girls Sitting in Automobile

Date: 1909
Description: Two girls posed inside an automobile, probably a Model-T Ford.
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Two Girls Sitting in Automobile

Date: 1909
Description: Two girls posed inside an automobile, probably a Model-T Ford.
Postcard

Warner Speedometer

Date: 1907
Description: Printed postcard distributed to automobile purchasers by the Warner Instrument Co. of Beloit, Wisconsin, founded by Arthur P. Warner, inventor of the magne...
Postcard

Decorated Automobile

Date: 1907
Description: Festively dressed passengers posing in an automobile decorated for a parade. A house and trees are in the background.
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Testing Jeffery's Rambler

Date: 1901
Description: Thomas B. Jeffery's first Rambler automobile during a test for strength in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin's First Coupe

Date: 1905
Description: Automobile alleged to be the first coupe built in Wisconsin. The vehicle was built by Gus Wilkie of Sheboygan from the body of a carriage and the chassis f...
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J.K. Severson House

Date: 1903
Description: An automobile with driver and four passengers is parked beside the porch of a two-story wood frame house at 1923 East Washington Avenue. On the reverse of ...
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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...
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Iowa's First Flyer

Date: 03 1909
Description: Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach. Bates originally chall...
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Rustic Bridge

Date: 1901
Description: A.G. Zimmerman parked on an artfully rustic, wooden bridge in his automobile, a "locomobile steamer," on Mendota Drive.
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Alligators Driving Vintage Automobile

Date: 1907
Description: Two stuffed alligators appear in a 1903 Model A Cadillac automobile. One is driving, the other riding in the back seat. Palm trees and dwellings are in the...
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McCormick Reaper with Bed Folded Up

Date: 05 11 1908
Description: Reaper with bed folded up outdoors at McCormick Works. In the background are railroad cars, an automobile, and brick factory buildings.
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Bennett Family, House and Auto

Date: 1901
Description: The H.H. Bennett House, Kilbourn, with members of the family posing in front of the house and in a 1901 Winton automobile. Ashley Bennett, the son of the f...
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Lakeside House on Green Bay

Date: 1909
Description: Scene near what may be Coleman, perhaps on the shore of Green Bay on Lake Michigan. View through tall grass towards a man standing next to an automobile lo...
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Rustic Bridge

Date: 1902
Description: View of a rustic bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood Hills. Judge A.G Zimmerman is posing in his first automobile, also one of Madison'...
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Chief Geronimo

Date: 1908
Description: The Native American Chief Geronimo, prominent Native American leader and medicine man of the Chiricahua Apache, riding in an automobile with three other me...
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 ...
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Model T Ford

Date: 1907
Description: Ed Lindner at the wheel of a Model T Ford.
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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...

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