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Island Resorts at the Wisconsin Dells

Date: 07 1927
Description: Car parked underneath the entrance gate to the Island Resort at the Wisconsin Dells, 25 miles from the Dells on Highway 12-16 near Mauston. Entrance gate a...
Photograph

Painted Fences on State Highway

Date: 01 09 1928
Description: Difference in paint on fences on a state highway.
Photograph

Battle Hollow Sign

Date: 1927
Description: View of the Battle Hollow sign along an unpaved road. In the distance on the left is a rock formation covered with trees. Sign reads: "Battle Hollow Clack ...
Postcard

Toll Bridge

Date: 1920
Description: View of two automobiles crossing a toll bridge. There are cherries on branches at the top of the postcard. Caption reads: "In Door County 'Cherryland,' The...
Photograph

Highway Detour Sign

Date: 1920
Description: Detour sign posted by the Wisconsin Highway Commission, the predecessor of the Department of Transportation, in Manitowoc showing a confusing detour route ...
Photograph

Sauk County Road

Date: 1920
Description: Loganville Road in Sauk County taken by the Wisconsin Good Roads Association. The photograph was meant to create a contrast between the new improved road ...
Photograph

Russell Motor Patrol

Date: 07 20 1929
Description: Emil Anderson operates a road grader marked "Russell Motor Patrol No.3" on Highway 12.
Photograph

Russell Motor Patrol on Highway 12

Date: 07 20 1927
Description: Emil Anderson operating a road grader marked "Russell Motor Patrol No.3" on Highway 12.
Photograph

Overturned Automobile

Date: 12 1926
Description: Two men standing by a guard rail along the side of a road to look at a snow-covered automobile resting on its side.
Photograph

Driving Safety

Date: 07 1927
Description: Automobiles approaching a turn in a paved road with billboards on either side. Photograph taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depart...
Photograph

County Trunk F

Date: 1925
Description: View down steep road with guard rail. A car is parked on the side of the road on the right. Over the railing, there is a river and a town with a church bui...
Photograph

Moving Van on Rural Highway

Date: 03 25 1925
Description: Elevated view of a Model 63 International moving van owned by Frank Razey Moving Company driving down a rural highway. A barn is in the background.
Photograph

Route 19

Date: 1925
Description: A view looking up a winding road with rows of utility lines on both sides. The road is partially fenced.
Photograph

New Concrete Bridge

Date: 1921
Description: View from opposite bank of two horse-drawn buggies crossing the newly constructed bridge over a river.
Photograph

International Harvester Branch House — Philadelphia

Date: 04 07 1924
Description: Exterior view of International Harvester's Philadelphia branch house. Automobiles are parked in a cul-de-sac in front of the building; a sign reading: "Int...
Photograph

Highway 11

Date: 1928
Description: A car drives across a metal bridge on Highway 11.
Photograph

Bridge and Water Tower

Date: 1927
Description: View down middle of metal bridge across the Cornell Flowage. Across the lake, there is the pulpwood stacker on the left and a water tower on the right near...
Photograph

Highway 61

Date: 1920
Description: View from hillside of car driving down a winding road. Their are cornfields on both sides of the road.
Photograph

Flood at Fish Creek

Date: 04 1922
Description: The photographer's wife Clothilde leans on a railing, looking at water rushing through a stone culvert on Fish Creek. Their car is parked on the roadway. A...
Photograph

Home of PET Milk Factory

Date: 1925
Description: View down the road leading to the PET evaporated milk factory. A painted sign on the factory's exterior wall claims PET evaporated milk is "milk at its bes...

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