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Lincoln Highway

Date: 1912
Description: View down hill toward two cars passing each other along the Lincoln Highway near Bedford, Pennsylvania. The Lincoln Highway was conceived in 1912 by Carl F...
Photograph

Sauk County Road

Date: 1920
Description: Loganville Road in Sauk County taken by the Wisconsin Good Roads Association. The photograph was meant to create a contrast between the new improved road ...
Book or Pamphlet

Scenic Wisconsin Motorways

Date: 1924
Description: Front and back covers of Scenic Wisconsin Motorways, a guide to Wisconsin roads compiled by Victor F. Pettric and published by the Wisconsin Motorists Asso...
Book or Pamphlet

Call of the Open Road

Date: 1922
Description: Front and back cover of the Call of the Open Road, an annual publication of the Milwaukee Journal Tour Department based on its regular columns of mo...
Photograph

Park and State Streets

Date: 1958
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...
Photograph

Group of People in Two Cars

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Description: Panoramic view of a group of men and women posing with two cars side by side on a road. Hills are seen in the background.
Photograph

Car on Dirt Road

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Description: A view of a car on a dirt road driving toward Mt. Tom Camp, with a wooden guardrail on one side and a natural rock formation on the other side.
Photograph

Car on Dirt Road

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Description: A view of a car driving on a dirt road along the Naugatuck River, with a wooden guardrail and river on one side, and a rock formation on the other.
Photograph

Bike and Car Road Scene

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Description: View toward a boy with his bicycle at the entrance to Putnam Hill Park on the left. There are telephone poles and trees in the center, street railroad trac...
Photograph

Cars on Dirt Road to Town

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Description: Elevated view of two cars on a dirt road heading downhill. A town is in the valley below, and mountains are in the distance.
Photograph

New Lincoln Highway Bridge

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Description: Elevated view of the Lincoln Highway, also known as the Juniata Bridge, or Juniata Crossing. View toward right side of bridge over a river, with tree-cover...
Photograph

View of National Pike Highway

Date: 1920
Description: View looking down the National Pike Highway, featuring an oncoming car, and buildings in the distance.
Photograph

Racing Car on the Beach

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Description: A man wearing goggles drives a Blitzen Benz automobile on the sand along a shoreline. The Blitzen Benz was first built in 1909 by Benz & Cie.
Photograph

Automobile on Dirt Road

Date: 1929
Description: View of a man driving an automobile on a dirt road in Ableman. Rock formations are on both sides of the road, and rocks and trees are in the background.
Photograph

General City View

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Description: Elevated view of the city along a shoreline.
Photograph

City View, Northfork, Virginia

Date: 1925
Description: View of a city featuring a downtown district and a neighborhood built into the hillside.
Print

AL. Strebe Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Al. Strebe, dealer of Overland and Willys-Knight automobiles in Abbotsford, Wisconsin, with side views of women driving and riding in two aut...
Print

Milwaukee Journal Tour Club Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Milwaukee Journal Tour Club, a national automobile club, with a three-quarter view of the company building surrounded by scenes of a hote...
Photograph

Model T in Winter

Date: 1910
Description: Residential street in winter, with a Model T Ford driving uphill.
Photograph

Automobile on Road Cut Through Bluffs

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Description: View from roadside of an automobile driving up a curve in a road through a large rock formation cut through a bluff.

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