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Imminent Head-On Collision on Rural Road

Date: 07 1927
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...
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

Dangers of Jaywalking

Date: 08 1927
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...
Photograph

Automobile Stopped at Railroad Crossing

Date: 04 23 1926
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...
Photograph

Road Sign Warning of Curve Ahead

Date: 05 1926
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.
Print

Milwaukee Journal Tour Club Letterhead

Date: 
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

International Scout at Grand Prix Track

Date: 09 28 1966
Description: Original caption reads: "New, more powerful four cylinder engine for the International Scout proves its worth in an exhibition at a Grand Prix track. Desig...
Map or Atlas

Rand McNally Official 1919 Auto Trails Map, District Number 8 : Southern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois

Date: 1919
Description: This map shows auto trails, main roads, rivers, and populations of communities. The map also shows selected hotels and garages and includes a key in the ri...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Auto Road Map

Date: 1917
Description: This road map shows routes through the state as well as some portions of Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan. Cities, the Mississippi River, Lake Winnebago, Gree...
Map or Atlas

Rand McNally Junior Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1927
Description: This map details automobile routes throughout the state as well as parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois. Cities, the Mississippi River, Lake Mic...
Map or Atlas

Rand McNally Standard Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1910
Description: This map shows automobile routes across the state as well as Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan. Cities, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, the Mississippi...
Map or Atlas

Rand McNally Standard Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: This map details automobile routes spanning across Wisconsin and parts of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Iowa. Cities, counties, Lake Michigan, Lake Su...
Map or Atlas

Rand McNally & Co.'s Indexed County and Township Pocket Map and Shippers' Guide of Wisconsin

Date: 1894
Description: This map shows automobile routes across the state and into parts of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Iowa. Cities, counties, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior...
Map or Atlas

The Rand-McNally New Commercial Atlas Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1913
Description: This map details automobile routes throughout the state and parts of Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, and Iowa. Cities, counties, Lake Michigan, Lake Superio...
Map or Atlas

Auto Trails Map Wisconsin

Date: 1924
Description: This map shows automobile routes across the state and into parts of Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan. Cities, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Green Ba...
Map or Atlas

Auto Trails Map

Date: 1919
Description: This map contains the automobile routes in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Cities, Lake Winnebago and Green Bay are labeled. The orange print on ...
Map or Atlas

Clason's Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1915
Description: This map displays various automobile routes through the state of Wisconsin and parts of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan. Cities, counties, Lake Mic...
Map or Atlas

Premier Series Wisconsin

Date: 1913
Description: This map displays automobile routes across Wisconsin as well as Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan and Illinois. Cities, counties, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Gre...
Map or Atlas

Tourists Guide and Good Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: The map shows the entire state with cities, rivers, and lakes labeled. The upper and right margin include inset maps of Racine, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Applet...

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