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| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 23 1934 |
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| Description: | Cities Service Gas Station featuring Kool Motor gasoline. Looking east from the corner of Femrite Road and Buckeye Road (Highway AB). |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | View from Outer Lake Shore Drive looking south from Foster Avenue. Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline are in the background. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Detour sign posted by the Wisconsin Highway Commission, the predecessor of the Department of Transportation, in Manitowoc showing a confusing detour route ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A bridge with both a wooden walkway for pedestrians and a dirt road for automobiles. Two men and a horse are standing on the other side of the bridge. |
| 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: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Restaurant west of Iron River on Highway 2. This establishment was torn down around 2003 when the Wisconsin Department of Transportation widened the Highwa... |
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| Description: | View down road of entrance of bridge. A car is driving towards the viewer. Signs at the bridge entrance read: "Parking on the Bridge is Prohibited," "Wisco... |
| Date: | 04 07 1924 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Olsen's Mill (Wayne Feeds) on Hwy 49, just north of Hwy 21. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| 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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| Description: | Elevated view over buildings of men and women walking across a bridge over a high river. There is a railroad bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A view from shoreline below a bridge that crosses the Wisconsin River. There are two signs on the upper level of the bridge. One is for weight limit and th... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from driveway over a stream towards a row of six log cabins to the left Highway 51. A Texaco Station and a delivery truck are on the far left. Cars ar... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View from road of a bluff with exposed rock face next to a winding unpaved road (probably Hwy 33 up to Wildcat Mountain). There is a guardrail along the cu... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a county road crossing over a lake. Two automobiles are on the road. On the right is a boat at the shoreline behind a "Parkin... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view downhill towards an intersection in the north woods. Three cars are driving away up the hill on the other side of the intersecti... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | View of the commercial district. Cars are parked in front of businesses. A flagpole and a stop sign are on a highway island in the foreground. |
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