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Lake Five

Date: 1910
Description: View down dirt road with small bridge along a lake. A man is driving an open automobile towards houses in the background.
Photograph

Out for a Spin

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard showing a man driving an early open automobile with a railroad overpass behind him. Caption reads: "Out for a Spin, Bonduel, Wis."
Photograph

Eagle River Street Scene

Date: 1935
Description: Traffic on Wall Street in Eagle River.
Postcard

Eagle River Street Scene

Date: 1958
Description: View down center of street in downtown Eagle River, with traffic, pedestrians, and automobiles parked along the curb. There are storefronts and signs on bo...
Photograph

Interstate I-43

Date: 1981
Description: Fond du Lac Avenue (State Highway 145) exit from Interstate I-43 in Milwaukee. As originally conceived, the interstate system in Wisconsin was to consist ...
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Highway Patrolman Issues Ticket

Date: 1961
Description: Highway patrolman issue's ticket ot motorist. Photograph taken by a Milwaukee Journal photographer who was covering the day of the Wisconsin State H...
Photograph

Madison's First Car

Date: 1902
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Zimmerman in their locomobile steamer in 1902. Zimmerman purchased the car in 1901 and claimed it was the first permanent automobil...
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Cross Crossings Cautiously

Date: 1923
Description: Unprotected railroad crossings were a particular hazard for automobiles as this 1923 poster issued by the American Railroad Association dramatically points...
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Crossing Guard Helping Student

Date: 09 1956
Description: A crossing guard helps a young student to cross the street at a cross walk at Abert and Green Bay streets in Milwaukee. Two cars (one a Chevrolet), have en...
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Rainy Day Traffic

Date: 1941
Description: Automobile traffic, with a street railroad car in the background, on a rainy day.
Book or Pamphlet

Call of the Open Road

Date: 1922
Description: Front and back cover of the Call of the Open Road, an annual publication of the Milwaukee Journal Tour Department based on its regular columns of mo...
Photograph

Old I-94 Bridge at Twilight

Date: 06 1977
Description: A view of the St. Croix River crossing at Hudson during the development of the Interstate Bridge. The old eastbound bridge seen here was built in 1951 whil...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1946
Description: View of Main Street, with cars driving on both sides of the street. Commercial buildings are on the left. Caption reads: "Kodachrome by Charles Edquist: an...
Photograph

V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 14 1945
Description: Pfc. Arthur Lovinger, passenger in the front seat; Staff Sgt. Robert Hanke, passenger in the back seat; and Staff Sgt. Louis Kaminsky, driving a car. They ...
Photograph

Corner of Park and State Streets

Date: 1958
Description: An elevated view of the intersection of Park and State Streets from the Wisconsin Historical Society. Bascom Hill can be seen in the right background, and ...
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Park and State Streets

Date: 1958
Description: Intersection of Park and State Streets from the Wisconsin Historical Society. The sign for the Wisconsin Historical Society is on the lawn in the center, a...
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Two Cars Pass on Dixie Highway

Date: 08 1924
Description: Trees and electric power lines are along a road. There are two automobiles being driven in opposite directions on Dixie Highway.
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Houston and Oklona Pike

Date: 1917
Description: View down unpaved road lines with trees towards a car that is approaching from a distance at Houston and Oklona Pike. There is a Coca-Cola advertisement on...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: We Never Stop

Date: 1915
Description: A man is driving an old-fashioned car with three women passengers on a road littered with cows. The driver has hit a cow with the car, causing it to fly in...
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Courteous Drive Campaign Winners

Date: 01 24 1947
Description: Winners of the Courteous Driver award, given by AAA, are Jeanne Lindsay, seated in a car, and her father, H.E. Lindsay, standing on the driver's side.

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