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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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Moving Boulder with Bulldozer

Date: 10 1959
Description: Moving a very large boulder with a bulldozer during construction of Highway 94 in Waukesha County.
Photograph

Sun Bathing

Date: 1965
Description: Women sun bathe near an express highway in Milwaukee.
Photograph

Dow's Store and Texaco Station

Date: 1946
Description: Two men pose outside Dow's store and filling station on Highway 77.
Book or Pamphlet

International CO-4000 Trucks

Date: 1965
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for International CO-4000 trucks with the "new top quality tilt-cab." Cover features color illustration of two deliv...
Photograph

Workers at Mirror Lake Bridge Construction

Date: 1960
Description: View from below looking up towards workers constructing and reinforcing the forms for the footings of the interstate highway bridge at Mirror Lake.
Photograph

Building I-94 with Earthmover

Date: 10 1959
Description: Construction of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County using an earthmover manufactured by Allis Chalmers.
Photograph

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...
Poster

International Trucks and Campers Advertising Poster

Date: 1969
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks and campers. Features a color photograph of a man and woman with a Travellall that is hooked to a camper; a pho...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Roxboro Road

Date: 
Description: A view of men grating the new surface of Roxboro Road, a section of the U.S. Highway. In the background is a steamroller.
Photograph

Resurfacing the Highway

Date: 
Description: A view on men resurfacing rural sections of U.S. Highway, with machinery and a small train running alongside the road.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Men in Travelette Pickup

Date: 1963
Description: View from side of road of four men riding in an International Travelette pickup truck on a divided highway. They are carrying a ladder in the back.
Photograph

International KR-11 Truck with Semi-Trailer

Date: 1944
Description: International KR-11 truck with semi-trailer (semi-truck) parked on a rural road. The truck was owned and operated by West Motor Freight of Boyertown, Penns...
Photograph

Lomira Legion Building

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

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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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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Marchers Marching to Madison

Date: 1966
Description: Marchers of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) leaving Wautoma and walking towards Madison along Highway 21 to petition lawmakers to hold farms and food indus...

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