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| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A staged scene showing a car passing a truck while another car is coming the other way. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural... |
| Date: | 03 05 1915 |
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| Description: | Three men are driving on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "In going from Fairhope, Ala. to Point Clear, Ala. the road in many places was found... |
| 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: | 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat stopping an automobile at a stop sign on a dirt road as a truck approaches from the opposite direction. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | John Esch, sitting behind the wheel of an automobile, adjusting his eyeglasses while smoking a tobacco pipe. Photograph taken for International Harvester's... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man jaywalking across a street in front of a moving automobile. The road is lined with houses and commercial buildings, and additional automobiles are pa... |
| Date: | 04 23 1926 |
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| Description: | A man stops his automobile at a railroad crossing while waiting for the train to cross a paved road. The traffic sign to the right of the car reads: "Railr... |
| Date: | 05 1926 |
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| Description: | A sign reading: "Look Curve L." is posted along the side of a paved road. An automobile is on the road in the background. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wm. Ewig Company, an insurance company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with full-color depictions of a scene with three traffic accidents involv... |
| Date: | 04 29 1979 |
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| Description: | A man is walking through a flooded Dairy Queen parking lot in the downtown area, while cars are driving down the street. The sign in the window of the Dair... |
| Date: | 09 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A motorist-eye view through the windshield towards a State Highway Patrol car parked beside a Wisconsin highway. The photographer, sitting in the backseat ... |
| Date: | 03 26 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of a car coming down Main Street during the flood of March 1920. Caption reads: "Main St." |
| Date: | 04 13 1922 |
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| Description: | The car is plowing through flood waters on Main Street. Commercial buildings and telephone poles are in the background. |
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