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| Date: | 09 04 1958 |
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| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 1968 |
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| Description: | Interstate Highway I-90 sign erected to point out to motorists the use of tax dollars in highway improvements. |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 10 17 1961 |
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| Description: | Governor Gaylord Nelson with local civic leaders at the dedication of a portion of Interstate Highway I-90. Congressman Robert Kastenmeier is standing at t... |
| Date: | 10 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Dedication ceremony for a section of Interstate Highway I-90 near the Wisconsin Dells, with a group of Native Americans watching from above. A Dells Fargo ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | View looking north at the ramp from USH 41 northbound. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | A car going up ramp, northbound on USH 41. |
| 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: | 1961 |
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| Description: | An International DF 405 truck owned by Lucky Lager drives down a highway away. The Lucky Lager factory is in the background. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 1960 |
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| Description: | "Famous Schreiner's Restaurant of Fond du Lac had this sign on Highway 41 forty-five years ago." |
| Date: | 06 1982 |
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| Description: | "Bill Zahn of Juneau organized this wagon train as it traveled on Y near Knowles." |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 1984 |
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| Description: | "Traveling west over the Theresa Marsh, Hwy 28 intersects Hwy 175 at this intersection." |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This early road map shows the system of roads in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, northeastern Iowa, southeastern Minnesota, and the western portion of Michig... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | View from side of road of an International Harvester model F-4370 truck traveling down a Texas highway. Behind the truck is an overpass with a sign reading... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Warner Creek Cheese billboard, including a 3D sculpture of a mouse with cheese, in front of a small, brick building. Located off the State Highway near Hil... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the opening of the driveaway on Interstate 70. Men stand holding signs that read: "Largest Driveaway in IH Truck History, 946 Trucks, Spri... |
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