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| Date: | 07 31 1962 |
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| Description: | Keystone Automobile Club's International Scout used for Roadside assistance. A man is fixing the tire, while another man looks on. Original caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 12 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is changing a tire on the truck that crossed the Sahara. |
| Date: | 04 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Service call by Harvey's Standard Service Station to a woman with a flat tire, stranded in a neighborhood. Harvey's service truck has pulled up alongside t... |
| Date: | 12 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Soldiers looking at ambulance 4, 128th Ambulance Co. stuck on the worst hill on the road to the Rhine. 32nd Division between Buchel and Kaisersesck, German... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A National brand automobile is stopped on the side of an unpaved road as a horse-drawn buggy approaches from the rear. The car is pulling a racing yacht on... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Left side view from roadside of a tow truck pulling a 1919 Ford coupe. The detached front axle of the coupe is in the bed of the tow truck. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Scouts at a winter camp push a car stuck in deep snow. Trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a man and a woman pushing their automobile through the mud because the wheels are caught in large ruts. Their feet have sunk to th... |
| Date: | 05 09 1947 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students along State Street near The University Coop bookstore at Lake Street. |
| Date: | 06 08 1963 |
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| Description: | Bride and groom wait in the open convertible that is their transportation to their reception while a mechanic works under the hood. |
| Date: | 12 07 1915 |
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| Description: | Three employees of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department working to free a car stuck in a muddy rural road. The original caption read... |
| Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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| Description: | Race cars on a country road, with car #29 off the road and missing its driver. The #27 car is just about to pass, with a dust trail behind it. Spectators ... |
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| Description: | A man with a tractor attempts to pull a truck out of deep mud. Two men stand on the bed of the truck, and another man sits on the front of the tractor. The... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Photograph taken through the broken windshield of a Wisconsin State highway patrol car. The patrolmen are at the scene of an automobile accident somewhere ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Soldiers from the 14th Infantry work to move a stuck Jeep from deep mud. One man in uniform with a cigarette in his mouth is leaning down over the wheel ho... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Tire blowouts were a frequent hazard of early automobile travel. |
| Date: | 12 08 1936 |
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| Description: | Men gather around an International D-40 truck stuck in soft sand on a road along a shoreline. |
| Date: | 02 17 1937 |
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| Description: | Benjamin Knotts and a representative of Schultz Tire and Battery Service, with a Schultz tow truck parked in front of the office of the Wisconsin Division ... |
| Date: | 03 28 1939 |
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| Description: | American Automobile Association display window showing Wisconsin travel brochures and pictures of tourist destinations around the state. |
| Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Buford Sennett, confessed murderer, soon after his capture at the Pomputis farm, sitting between a police officer and the driver of the car. |
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