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| Description: | Letterhead of the Schmit Brothers Trunk Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, manufacturers of "Trunks, Traveling Bags and Valises." Features a background image o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The tourist park in Black Earth. Typically such facilities were free for motorists. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Olin Park tourist campground on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison. |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson and another man stowing camping gear into an automobile for a canoe trip. |
| Date: | 05 03 1937 |
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| Description: | Menu for an Aloha Dinner on the Japanese passenger ship, M.S. Chichibu Maru, printed on a folding paper and bamboo hand fan, with painted blue irise... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Bartlett's Cabin Camp on Highways 10 &12 near Eau Claire. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | The Penco Filling Station in Black Earth. Wisconsin. Entrances to the ladies rest rooms in the service stations of this period were typically outside the ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Free public campground at Baraboo, one of 200 such facilities then made available to the traveling public by Wisconsin municipalities. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Customers standing outside the small bar are probably waiting to take the ferry across the river. |
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| Description: | Luggage tag from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. The hotel was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The luggage tag is part of an album of images of the hot... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A Ford automobile parked at the "The Frog," a filling station between Cambridge and Lake Ripley that also offered motorists ice cream, soda pop, and candy.... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The free tourist campground in Baraboo. Although similar free facilities were clustered in resort areas, by 1926 the Highway Commission engineer could rep... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | The travelers are washing their clothes in the St. Croix River. There are a number of logs at the river's edge. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Rustic, log cabin gas station in Chippewa Falls with a traveler's vehicle being filled with gasoline. It is not clear if the young woman in overalls is a p... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Inside pages of English-language brochure advertising Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A group of Rotarian tourists pose next to their tour bus in England. Joseph Jackson of Madison, the tall man in the back row wearing a hat, was a national... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Jack Paar, comedian and host of NBC's "Tonight Show," and his wife during a visit to Japan. During their visit Paar was hosted by journalist Cecil Brown, h... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | The entrance way to the Evergreen Resort. The sign advertises rooms, hot and cold water baths, meals, camp sites, and tourist kitchens. Caption reads: "Eve... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett advertising envelope addressed to William H. Metcalf of Milwaukee. The envelope bears an engraved image of people standing on top of Stand Roc... |
| Date: | 09 1951 |
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| Description: | The large, ornamental office building of Thomas Cook and Sons on the waterfront in Hong Kong. The firm was one of the oldest and largest travel companies i... |
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