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Khomeini Drive 55 Billboard
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Billboard urging Wisconsin motorists to obey the 55 miles per hour speed limit that is illustrated with a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution. The linkage of the speed limit with the Iranian leader graphically illustrates the degree to which the national speed limit was enacted as a security measure not as an energy saving device.
1979
Sandell, David
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Drive-In Movie Theater
July 10, 1974
An evening at the Big Sky drive-in theatre. Rear view of two people sitting in an automobile watching a drive-in movie.
Suburban Neighbors
June 1972
View along the 2700 block of Fish Hatchery Road, with billboard advertising residential lots in Tower Hill Park (a development by Llyman McKee and William McKee and their company called Macventures...
Sound Storm Rock Festival
April 24, 1970
Group of people outdoors behind a fence at a rock festival.
Highway Patrol Inspection
July 19, 1962
Inspection of Wisconsin State Highway patrolmen.
Lake Monona Parking
March 28, 1959
Elevated view of a parking lot along John Nolen Drive on the shore of a partially frozen Lake Monona. Railroad tracks are in the foreground on the right.
Sauk City Fire Company
February 1962
Albert Derleth, chief of the Sauk City Fire Department, and the department's fleet of equipment.
