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Dedication of Wisconsin's First Expressway

Date: 09 04 1958
Description: Dedication of Wisconsin's first expressway, a seven-mile stretch of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Presiding at the ribbon-cutting ...
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Sun Bathing

Date: 1965
Description: Women sun bathe near an express highway in Milwaukee.
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Dow's Store and Texaco Station

Date: 1946
Description: Two men pose outside Dow's store and filling station on Highway 77.
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Construction Truck

Date: 1969
Description: A man is driving a construction truck in the shadow cast by what appears to be an elevated highway. A sign for the "Brooklyn Battery Tunnel" is on one of t...
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The Triangle Filling Station

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of the Triangle filling station on Highway 12, which sold gasoline, ice, and other items. A man stands in front by the gas pump, and a map of...
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Don't Buy Scab Meat

Date: 11 1955
Description: United Packinghouse Workers of America picketers protest the hiring of temporary scab labor by the Colonial Provisions Company. Although no location or dat...
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Highway 77 at Clam Lake

Date: 1936
Description: View looking down Highway 77 at Clam Lake. On the left is a one-story building, Day's Service Station. On the right are two buildings, the one-story Standa...
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Lomira Legion Building

Date: 1974
Description: "The Lomira Legion building is framed in the arch of the Highway 67 overhead."
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Wagon Train

Date: 06 1982
Description: "Bill Zahn of Juneau organized this wagon train as it traveled on Y near Knowles."
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Evacuation Route Out of Milwaukee

Date: 1961
Description: Evacuation route out of Milwaukee. View from the side of the road looking downhill towards the rear of a Wisconsin State Patrol cruiser parked on the right...
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Driving on I-90

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Description: A smiling man driving I-90 in his rusty car.
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Three Injured on USH 12-18 at Madison East Side City Limits

Date: 05 11 1959
Description: Three people are injured in a two car crash on USH 12 & 18 at the Madison east side city limits at a location referred to as "Crash Curve" by law enforceme...

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