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Highway Ribbon Cutting

Date: 10 04 1964
Description: Governor John Reynolds, state highway officials, and beauty queens are in attendance as the ribbon is cut to open a new Wisconsin highway. One of the youn...
Photograph

De Pere Bridge over the Fox River

Date: 1935
Description: View towards bridge. The Nicolet Paper Company is on the left.
Photograph

Cedar Creek Road

Date: 1914
Description: Horse-drawn wagon on Cedar Creek Road in Brown County. The road is dirt and there are houses in the backgound.
Map or Atlas

Map of Trunk Highway System of Wisconsin

Date: 1918
Description: "The playground of the Middle West." Showing the Numbered and Marked State Trunk Highway System and the Principal Secondary Highways; also locates Points o...
Photograph

University Avenue Looking East

Date: 08 1946
Description: View down University Avenue, looking east. At this time, University Avenue was United States Highway 12.
Map or Atlas

Official Wisconsin Highway Map

Date: 1937
Description: Official state highway map, with insets of cities.
Map or Atlas

Official Highway Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1932
Description: This map includes a distance table, text, and insets maps of, Superior, Ashland, Marinette, Green Bay, Appleton, Manitowoc, Oshkosh, Fond Du Lac, Janesvill...
Map or Atlas

Forest County, Wisconsin

Date: 1967
Description: This tourist brochure for Forest County, Wisconsin, includes a 1967 road map of the county which identifies points of interest, a location map, descriptive...
Map or Atlas

Iowa County

Date: 1956
Description: Shows roads, railroads, highways, boundaries, and other public facilities and areas. Includes location map and legend. "Corrected for Feb. 1956." "Correcte...
Map or Atlas

Town Plat Record - Wisconsin Highway Commission : Town of Beaver Dam, County of Dodge

Date: 1952
Description: This map of Beaver Dam shows state trunk highway system, county trunk highway system, town roads, rivers, and Beaver Dam Lake and includes an additional at...
Photograph

Timber Highway

Date: 1933
Description: Highway with timbered railroad underpass.
Photograph

Bad Place

Date: 
Description: An automobile is stuck in the mud on a rural road. The driver leans out of the window to observe a man putting material for traction under the front, left ...
Map or Atlas

Preliminary Traffic Map

Date: 1937
Description: This blue line print map shows highways, the scale of traffic volume, and average 24 hour traffic. Also included are inset maps of Green Bay, Oshkosh, Fond...
Map or Atlas

Main Traveled Routes in Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: This map shows main traveled routes. Portions of Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota are labeled. Also includes a legend s...
Map or Atlas

Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This map shows highways, roads, routes, communities, rivers, and lakes. Wide red lines show principle highways. Narrow red lines show secondary roadways or...
Map or Atlas

Official Map of the State Trunk Highway System of Wisconsin

Date: 1919
Description: Narrow red lines show principal secondary highways. Green circles shows points of historical interest. Green triangles show Indian mounds and Indian villag...
Map or Atlas

Official Highway Map of Wisconsin : "The Playground of the Middle West"

Date: 1925
Description: This map shows the state trunk highway system and county trunk highways. The lower left corner includes a legend of roadway types. Lake Michigan and Lake S...
Map or Atlas

Official Highway Map of Wisconsin : "The Playground of the Middle West"

Date: 1925
Description: This map shows the state trunk highway system and county trunk highways. The lower left corner includes a legend of roadway types. Lake Michigan and Lake S...
Map or Atlas

Official Highway Map of Wisconsin : The Playground of the Middle West

Date: 1926
Description: This map shows the state trunk highway system and county trunk highways. The lower left corner includes a legend of roadway types. Lake Michigan and Lake S...
Map or Atlas

Official Highway Map of Wisconsin "The Playground of the Middle West" : Showing the U.S. Highway System and Other arteries for Thru Traffic and the State Trunk Highway System Also the More Important County Highways

Date: 1927
Description: This map shows the state trunk highway system and county trunk highways. The lower left corner includes a legend of roadway types. Lake Michigan and Lake S...

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