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| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of city traffic of bumper-to-bumper cars leaving Milwaukee County Stadium after the 1957 World Series. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of La Crosse, with Onalaska in the background. The highway is U.S. Highway 53 and the State Highway 35. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Mineral Point showing State Highway 23-39 under construction. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of Mineral Point showing the construction of State Highway 23-39. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Divided highway is South Chase Avenue between West Lincoln Avenue (2300) and East Oklahoma Avenue (3100). |
| Date: | 11 1955 |
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| Description: | United Packinghouse Workers of America picketers protest the hiring of temporary scab labor by the Colonial Provisions Company. Although no location or dat... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of International Metro trucks parked beside a highway overpass. A group of cars are parked in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | This road map shows federal, state and county roads in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, northeastern Iowa, eastern Minnesota, and the western portion of Michi... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | "Compliments of the Douglas County Highway Department"--Top margin. Shows federal highways, state trunk highways, county highways, town roads, unimproved ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Shows roads, railroads, highways, boundaries, and other public facilities and areas. Includes location map and legend. "Corrected for Feb. 1956." "Correcte... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Includes street index. Shows local streets, parks, highways, railroads, Fond du Lac River, and part of lake Winnebago. Also includes text on points of inte... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Includes street index and index to points of interest. Shows land ownership by name, plat of town, local streets, schools, parks, highways, railroads, ward... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Map shows roads, highways, railroads, parks, city buildings, schools, cemeteries, city limits, and the Fox River. The map is indexed by street name, street... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | This map of Beaver Dam shows state trunk highway system, county trunk highway system, town roads, rivers, and Beaver Dam Lake and includes an additional at... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | This map of Beloit shows existing platted streets or highways and proposed street right of way. The map reads: "I hereby certify that this is the official ... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | This map of Chippewa Falls shows the city of Chippewa River, city limits, roads, highways, fair grounds, and parks. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | This map shows local streets, roads, highways, Middleton, Monona, Lake Wingra, Lake Monona, Lake Mendota, and an inset map that shows city parking areas. A... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This cadastral map shows highways, land owners, railroads, and rivers. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This map shows roads, trails, county lines, town borders, section lines, railroads, rivers, lakes, and Lake Michigan on the far right. The bottom margin in... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | This map shows hunting areas, lakes, rivers, railroads, highways, roads, and trails around Clam Lake, Glidden, and Flambeau Flowage in the north, to Hawkin... |
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