Galleries
The Wisconsin Historical Society’s online image database provides a rich pictorial view of Wisconsin and United States history. In support of Fill ’er Up, WHS Images has produced a handful of featured galleries highlighting car culture and the automobile industry that provide an introduction to image research at the WHS Archives. To learn more about the WHS image collections, subscribe to the WHS Images Update, a monthly e-mail newsletter that features gallery exhibits and special image highlights.
Fill ’er Up: A Historical Look at Gas and Service Stations
Since their unremarkable beginnings as cheap shacks and curbside pumps at the dawn of the automobile age, gas stations have taken many forms. A selection of images from the WHS collections.
Horses to Horsepower: Cars in Wisconsin History
Take a drive through history
and witness Wisconsin's dramatic transformation from a horse-dependent society
during the 19th century to the automobile-based culture of the present.
The Winther Motor Co., Kenosha
These 1921 photographs of the Winther Motor
Co.’s
truck and automobile plant in Kenosha give unusual insight into
manufacturing at the time.
