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Sun Bathing

Date: 1965
Description: Women sun bathe near an express highway in Milwaukee.
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World Series Traffic Jam

Date: 1957
Description: Elevated view of city traffic of bumper-to-bumper cars leaving Milwaukee County Stadium after the 1957 World Series.
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Brule River Monument

Date: 1930
Description: View of bridge and Brule River monument. Placed where the Brule River is crossed by the Memorial Highway from Superior to Brule and Ashland (Highway 2).
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Aerial View of Town and Highway

Date: 1965
Description: Aerial view of town and Highway 66.
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Highway through Iron River

Date: 1935
Description: View of Iron River along the highway.
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La Crosse and Onalaska

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of La Crosse, with Onalaska in the background. The highway is U.S. Highway 53 and the State Highway 35.
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Bridge in Lake Delton

Date: 1930
Description: Bridge on U.S. highway 12.
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Mississippi River by Highway 35

Date: 09 1962
Description: The Mississippi River along Highway 35.
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Construction of State Highway 23-39

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of Mineral Point showing State Highway 23-39 under construction.
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State Highway 23-39 Construction

Date: 1955
Description: An aerial view of Mineral Point showing the construction of State Highway 23-39.
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Marquette Interchange

Date: 1965
Description: Aerial view of early construction at the Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee, the junction of Interstate Highways I94 and I43. Construction began in 1964, ...
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Marquette Interchange

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Description: Aerial view of the first Marquette Interchange, photographed some time after its completion in 1968.
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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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Hoan Bridge to Nowhere

Date: 04 01 1975
Description: The bridge over the Milwaukee Harbor named in honor of former Mayor Daniel Hoan. The bridge was constructed between 1970 and 1972, but during the period de...
Map or Atlas

Map of Trunk Highway System of Wisconsin

Date: 1918
Description: "The playground of the Middle West." Showing the Numbered and Marked State Trunk Highway System and the Principal Secondary Highways; also locates Points o...
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Automobile Exhaust

Date: 02 1977
Description: Automobile exhaust on a cold February morning in Milwaukee.
Map or Atlas

State of Wisconsin Highway Map

Date: 1913
Description: Wisconsin map showing fifteen hundred miles of national highways proposed by the National Highways Association. Scale: 1:2,500,000. These highways will dir...
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World Trade Center from Parking Lot

Date: 1969
Description: View of the construction of the World Trade Center from a nearby parking lot.
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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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Aerial View Looking North

Date: 1950
Description: Divided highway is South Chase Avenue between West Lincoln Avenue (2300) and East Oklahoma Avenue (3100).

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