Clara Swanson recalls: This is one of the large bakery trucks and the small advertising trucks. The advertising truck would hand out small sample loaves of bread to children.
Ringling Brothers Circus advertising billboard and advertisements for Dr. Pierce's medicines. Note on back of photo says, "100 block No. Front Street near present Salet's Mens store."
View of the Ortonville Bottling Company truck decorated for a parade streamers and cases of bottles. The truck also features a sign that reads, "We Won Favor - By Our Flavor."
Exterior view of the Okabena Tire and Repair Shop owned by Irvin Bayerkohler, later purchased by Okabena Cooperative and later the Jackson County Cooperative Association. Pictured from left to right: Irvin Bayerkohler, Welton "Wiz" Bayerkohler, Herman Volk, and two unidentified individuals.
A group of Oakwood Cemetery workers are posed with garden tools, lawn mower, wheel barrow, sod cutter. The second man from the left is Andrew Holm, superintendent of the cemetery.
Delivery truck for miniature sample loaves of Swanson's Sonny Boy Bread. Shorty Johnson holds three inch sample loaves and an unknown man holds a full size loaf.
Delivery truck for miniature sample loaves of Swanson's Sonny Boy Bread; Shorty Johnson, driver; Sample loaves were given to children as a marketing technique.
Photograph of a celebration on Main Street in Walnut Grove. Businesses shown include: Northwestern Hotel & Restaurant, Chicago Fair, City Drug Store, L.T. Ellefson, C.L. Wichner Saloon, Wichner; C.L., and City Meat Market. All of the buidings shown on the south side of Main Street burned in 1903.