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Pope-Toledo of Mr. A.P. (Anton) Hirzy
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| Title | Pope-Toledo of Mr. A.P. (Anton) Hirzy |
| Subject (LCTGM) | Automobiles
Group portraits
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| Subject (LCSH) | Wisconsin Rapids (Wis.) -- History; Wood County (Wis.) -- History |
| Description | This image is from Volume 1 of 100 years of pictorial & descriptive history of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, while the quoted description is from Volume 2.
"The picture at the top center is any ones guess as to the vintage of this first two seated auto that was brought to town by Anton P. Hirzy. Probably as near as we can locate it the Mayor said, he remembers as a young fellow, of Hirzy offering to give him a ride from the Library towards the Catholic church. The steering wheel worked on a chain and not a worm-gear and it took a lot of turns to move the front wheels to the right, and then as suddenly, a hurried lot of turns to make it tack about. That one time he thought they would land in the river, and then by some magic they turned and it looked very much as if they would land in Arpin's lawn. This happened in about 1905-06. Kerosene light, radiator under the front, and to negotiate the back seat you had to turn it out and open it up.
George Davis' Oldsmobile was its predecessor and the first car here. In the front seat are Mr. And Mrs. Hirzy and in the rear, Mr. And Mrs. Jacob Lutz. It was probably taken up river, above Biron, where Mr. Hirzy had a cottage. It was one of those cars that you run a half mile and then "get out and get under"." |
| Creator | Taylor, T. A. (Theodore Asa) |
| Community | Wisconsin Rapids |
| County | Wood |
| State | Wisconsin
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| Collection | 100 years of pictorial & descriptive history of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin |
| Submitter | McMillan Memorial Library
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| Rights | This item is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0. This allows private, educational and non-commercial use with attribution. Contact the Library to obtain permission for other uses. |
| Type | Still image |
| Format | image/jpg |
| Identifier | 257 |
| Date uploaded | 2011-03-25 |
| Date modified | 2011-03-25 |
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