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| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Two men attempt to move a buggy mired in the mud on a rutted, dirt road. One man is steadying the horse and his hat is laying in the middle of the road. Th... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Sign along STH 19 near Watertown advertising the community's free tourist camp. One of the many problems associated with automobile travel during the earl... |
| Date: | 07 31 1944 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Goodland and Mrs. Goodland board the train for the Republican Governors conference in St. Louis. The meeting was called by Thomas E. Dewey,... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A family of travelers in a convertible asks directions of a gasoline attendant at a rest stop near Madison. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | A Midway Motor Lodge, with the Interstate traffic just behind it. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | The Penco Filling Station in Black Earth. Wisconsin. Entrances to the ladies rest rooms in the service stations of this period were typically outside the ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Bartlett's Cabin Camp on Highways 10 &12 near Eau Claire. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The tourist park in Black Earth. Typically such facilities were free for motorists. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Olin Park tourist campground on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A Ford automobile parked at the "The Frog," a filling station between Cambridge and Lake Ripley that also offered motorists ice cream, soda pop, and candy.... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The free tourist campground in Baraboo. Although similar free facilities were clustered in resort areas, by 1926 the Highway Commission engineer could rep... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Free public campground at Baraboo, one of 200 such facilities then made available to the traveling public by Wisconsin municipalities. |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Typical room at the Milwaukee River Hilton Inn in MIlwaukee. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Rustic, log cabin gas station in Chippewa Falls with a traveler's vehicle being filled with gasoline. It is not clear if the young woman in overalls is a p... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | The tourist camp that the citizens of Chippewa Falls provided free for motorists passing through their community. |
| Date: | 02 02 1967 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of a snowstorm that hit Milwaukee just at rush hour creating a traffic headache for homebound commuters (seen here at Wisconsin and Milwaukee ... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Campers at Governor Dodge State Park with their trailer. |
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