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| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | Fond du Lac Avenue (State Highway 145) exit from Interstate I-43 in Milwaukee. As originally conceived, the interstate system in Wisconsin was to consist ... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Mario Andretti, whom many consider to be the greatest race car driver of all time, at the start/finish line of the Road America race course at Elkhart Lake... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Highway patrolman issue's ticket ot motorist. Photograph taken by a Milwaukee Journal photographer who was covering the day of the Wisconsin State H... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Zimmerman in their locomobile steamer in 1902. Zimmerman purchased the car in 1901 and claimed it was the first permanent automobil... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Unprotected railroad crossings were a particular hazard for automobiles as this 1923 poster issued by the American Railroad Association dramatically points... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A patrolman demonstrates a driving machine at a Drivers Clinic sponsored by the Wisconsin Highway Commission. |
| Date: | 09 1956 |
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| Description: | A crossing guard helps a young student to cross the street at a cross walk at Abert and Green Bay streets in Milwaukee. Two cars (one a Chevrolet), have en... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Automobile traffic, with a street railroad car in the background, on a rainy day. |
| Date: | 02 02 1967 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of a snowstorm that hit Milwaukee just at rush hour creating a traffic headache for homebound commuters (seen here at Wisconsin and Milwaukee ... |
| Date: | 07 19 1962 |
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| Description: | Inspection of Wisconsin State Highway patrolmen. |
| Date: | 02 1977 |
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| Description: | Automobile exhaust on a cold February morning in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 06 1977 |
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| Description: | A view of the St. Croix River crossing at Hudson during the development of the Interstate Bridge. The old eastbound bridge seen here was built in 1951 whil... |
| Date: | 08 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Arthur Lovinger, passenger in the front seat; Staff Sgt. Robert Hanke, passenger in the back seat; and Staff Sgt. Louis Kaminsky, driving a car. They ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of the intersection of Park and State Streets from the Wisconsin Historical Society. Bascom Hill can be seen in the right background, and ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Intersection of Park and State Streets from the Wisconsin Historical Society. The sign for the Wisconsin Historical Society is on the lawn in the center, a... |
| Date: | 08 1924 |
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| Description: | Trees and electric power lines are along a road. There are two automobiles being driven in opposite directions on Dixie Highway. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down unpaved road lines with trees towards a car that is approaching from a distance at Houston and Oklona Pike. There is a Coca-Cola advertisement on... |
| Date: | 07 23 1977 |
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| Description: | Dick Leppla driving in the qualifying race for the Can-Am (Canadian-American) feature at Road America. |
| Date: | 01 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Winners of the Courteous Driver award, given by AAA, are Jeanne Lindsay, seated in a car, and her father, H.E. Lindsay, standing on the driver's side. |
| Date: | 01 30 1947 |
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| Description: | Observing a poster stating: "Rain, Sleet, Snow, slow!," are Police Officer Walter Randall, with Edwin B. Petersen, winner of the "Wisconsin State Journal's... |
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