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Highway 41
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View down median of road towards a truck parked on the scales of a weigh station in the center of Highway 41 just north of the Wisconsin/Illiinois state line. Signs along the highway mark the Wisconsin state and Kenosha county borders. There is a large billboard for Miller High Life beer, which also welcomes travelers to Wisconsin. The caption on the negative envelope refers to the four lane, divided road as a "superhighway." The caption also notes that the land at right is "partly owned by State Highway Commission and Mr. Fossland." As late as 2014, the Fossland Trust continued to own land east of the highway.
May 1939
Coon, C. L.
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International Truck Parked in front of a Billboard
July 29, 1926
View of an International truck parked on the side of a road in front of a billboard. The billboard reads: "Lehigh Cement, The Oglesby Mill."
Petition to legalize a road in Pleasant Prairie
1848
Petitioners request that a road from Pleasant Prairie to Southport be legalized.
Industrial Tractors at Weigh Station
August 9, 1927
A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an open truck loaded with grain, which is sitting on a scale at a weigh station. A man is standing near a small building holding the scale on the left. Ther...
Grain Delivery Truck
August 9, 1927
A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an open truck loaded with grain on a scale at a weigh station. A man is standing near a small building holding the scale on the left. There is another man s...
Highway Leading into Town
November 1, 1928
View down highway towards a small town at the bottom of the hill. Trucks are coming up the hill. Tree-lined hills are in the background.
Cutting a Subgrade
1930
Cutting a Subgrade is the original caption of this photograph which shows a dump truck manufactured by the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville pulling a road grader.
