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Wisconsin Four Lane Highway

Date: 1954
Description: Elevated view of a newly opened divided four lane highway.
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McDonald's Billboard

Date: 
Description: A billboard advertising the opening of a particular McDonald's restaurant. Express highways promoted the emergence of large signs that could be read at a d...
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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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Accident Scene on Hwy 12-18

Date: 09 04 1938
Description: Accident scene on Highway 12-18 one-half mile east of the Dane County fairgrounds. Close-up of front of automobile, with bicycle under the car. Katherine B...
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Wrecked Chevrolet

Date: 10 23 1937
Description: Close-up of damaged Chevrolet in a ditch next to Highway 12 near Highway KP & Roxbury, looking north, with a farmstead in the background.
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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.
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

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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Highway through Iron River

Date: 1935
Description: View of Iron River along the highway.
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Bridge in Lake Delton

Date: 1930
Description: Bridge on U.S. highway 12.
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Interstate Highway Bridge Construction

Date: 1960
Description: Excavation for bridge column footings for the Mirror Lake Bridge.
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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

Mirror Lake Bridge Construction

Date: 11 16 1960
Description: Elevated view of the interstate highway bridge construction at Mirror Lake showing the concrete footings halfway down the embankment.
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Old I-94 Bridge at Twilight

Date: 06 1977
Description: A view of the St. Croix River crossing at Hudson during the development of the Interstate Bridge. The old eastbound bridge seen here was built in 1951 whil...
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

Aerial View of Arboretum and Isthmus

Date: 1961
Description: View over beltline of University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum along Lake Wingra. Lake Mendota is on upper left, and Lake Monona is on the right, with the...
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Rural Highway

Date: 
Description: View down center of a rural section of U.S. highway, with a small train running on railroad tracks alongside it.
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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.
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Henry Hudson Parkway

Date: 1968
Description: Elevated view from steep hill of vehicles traveling on the tree-lined Henry Hudson Parkway.
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Truck on Foggy Morning

Date: 2008
Description: View down highway as a truck is driving towards a foggy horizon as the sun is rising. The photographer was on his way to Madison when this picture was take...

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