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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a young woman driving an open automobile with Santa Claus in the back, who is holding gifts in his left hand. He is wearing a red sui... |
| Date: | 05 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Men doing a periodic rotation of the synthetic and recapped tires on one of the two cars parked in front of the Park Hotel, and participating in the Americ... |
| Date: | 06 28 1960 |
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| Description: | Concrete paving operation near the intersection of I-90 and U.S. Highway 12 in Sauk County. Traffic flows along the old highway to the right of the new co... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down hill toward two cars passing each other along the Lincoln Highway near Bedford, Pennsylvania. The Lincoln Highway was conceived in 1912 by Carl F... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Loganville Road in Sauk County taken by the Wisconsin Good Roads Association. The photograph was meant to create a contrast between the new improved road ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down dirt road with small bridge along a lake. A man is driving an open automobile towards houses in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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." |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Mario Andretti, whom many consider to be the greatest race car driver of all time, at the start/finish line of the Road America race course at Elkhart Lake... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Unprotected railroad crossings were a particular hazard for automobiles as this 1923 poster issued by the American Railroad Association dramatically points... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A patrolman demonstrates a driving machine at a Drivers Clinic sponsored by the Wisconsin Highway Commission. |
| Date: | 09 1956 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Automobile traffic, with a street railroad car in the background, on a rainy day. |
| Date: | 02 02 1967 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of a snowstorm that hit Milwaukee just at rush hour creating a traffic headache for homebound commuters (seen here at Wisconsin and Milwaukee ... |
| Date: | 07 19 1962 |
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| Description: | Inspection of Wisconsin State Highway patrolmen. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Front and back covers of Scenic Wisconsin Motorways, a guide to Wisconsin roads compiled by Victor F. Pettric and published by the Wisconsin Motorists Asso... |
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