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Wisconsin Wayside

Date: 09 20 1972
Description: Wayside #8 near Necedah in rural Adams County.
Photograph

Point Bluff Wayside

Date: 09 30 1970
Description: Point Bluff Wayside as viewed from the highway bridge above.
Photograph

Black Earth Tourist Park

Date: 1925
Description: The tourist park in Black Earth. Typically such facilities were free for motorists.
Photograph

Olin Park Tourist Camp

Date: 1925
Description: The Olin Park tourist campground on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison.
Photograph

Chippewa Falls Tourist Camp

Date: 1926
Description: The tourist camp that the citizens of Chippewa Falls provided free for motorists passing through their community.
Photograph

Campers at Governor Dodge State Park

Date: 1978
Description: Campers at Governor Dodge State Park with their trailer.
Postcard

Tourist Camp, Lakeside Park, Lake Winnebago

Date: 1934
Description: Tourist camp at Lakeside Park on Lake Winnebago.
Poster

New York Central Lines Chicago Poster

Date: 1935
Description: An original lithograph promoting New York Central Lines railway and the city of Chicago. Featuring the artist Leslie Ragan, the poster depicts the buildin...
Poster

Far West National Parks, USA and Canada Travel Poster

Date: 1934
Description: An original lithograph promoting the national parks of the western United States and Canada, as well as promoting train travel. The poster depicts a creek...
Poster

Northern Pacific Railway Travel Poster: Yellowstone Park

Date: 1924
Description: An original lithograph promoting the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone Park, and to get there by way of the Northern Pacific Railway. The poster depicts a dramat...
Photograph

Donald Rock Wayside Park Dedication

Date: 06 27 1954
Description: Vona Donald poses next to a newly dedicated plague. The occasion was the opening of a new wayside park located along Highway 92 between Mt. Horeb and Mt. V...
Photograph

Donald Rock Wayside Park Dedication

Date: 06 27 1954
Description: Two people walk near a large rock formation in a wooded area with a picnic table in the foreground. The occasion was the opening of a new wayside park loca...
Photograph

Bicylists Posing with Feet on Handlebars

Date: 06 26 1940
Description: Two girls posing with their feet on the handlebars of their bikes, while one of the girls whistles with two fingers and a third girl (also whistling and mu...
Photograph

Volksgarten in Vienna, Austria

Date: 1906
Description: Mary E. Smith walking along a path in the Volksgarten in Vienna, Austria. She is wearing an ornate hat, holding an umbrella over her shoulder, and looking ...
Photograph

In Front of a Monument in Vienna, Austria

Date: 1906
Description: Mary E. Smith standing in front of the Grillparzer monument in the Volksgarten in Vienna, Austria. She is holding a rose in her left hand and an umbrella o...
Photograph

Park in Vienna, Austria

Date: 1906
Description: Mary E. Smith walking along a path in a park in Vienna, Austria holding an umbrella.
Map or Atlas

Official Road Map Wisconsin

Date: 1935
Description: This colored road map comes with a map legend and explanation, as well as an index of cities and towns (and their populations) in Wisconsin. Information ab...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin

Date: 1937
Description: This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states. Information on the quality and type of any road shown (pave...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1948
Description: This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states. The map is organized such that a single map of Wisconsin is...
Map or Atlas

The Blue Diamond Resort Area

Date: 1962
Description: This tourist-oriented road map shows federal highways, state highways, county roads, and county lines in the "Blue Diamond Resort Area," a scenic space enc...

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