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Riverside Hotel

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Description: Automobiles park in front of the Riverside Hotel, located in a rural area.
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Automobiles Parked Along Rural Road

Date: 1918
Description: Automobiles, including a Ford runabout, parked along a rural dirt road for an International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department short course and ma...
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Parting for Progress

Date: 1961
Description: Two automobiles driving on a highway cutting between two halves of a rock outcropping. The rock was blasted to build the road.
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Northern Wisconsin Tavern

Date: 1936
Description: Two automobiles are parked next to a tavern with a Blatz Beer sign hanging out front. An American flag hangs from a flagpole.
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80th Anniversary Founding of Swiss Colony

Date: 08 16 1925
Description: View of field full of parked automobiles at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Swiss Colony at New Glarus. A log structure in...
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Race Car Built by Ideal Body Company

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Description: Race car number 6 sponsored by National Auto Elec. The body of the car was built by the Ideal Body Company. A man wearing a helmet and goggles is sitting i...
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General Town View

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Description: Elevated view of the town and surrounding area. The brick building at the photograph's bottom center is labeled "Geren, Rish Art Studio" and was built in ...
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Taliesin

Date: 1921
Description: Text on front reads: "Taliesin, Spring Green, Wis." Stone walls, steps and windows are landscaped with trees and shrubs, on the northeast elevation of the ...
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Highway 11

Date: 1928
Description: A car drives across a metal bridge on Highway 11.
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Lovers Lane

Date: 08 14 1929
Description: Text on front reads: "Lovers Lane, Sauk City, Wis." An unpaved, rural road with a wooden guard rail on both sides. A sign reads: "Automobiles Go Slow." Beh...
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Livingston Street Scene

Date: 04 1924
Description: A view of downtown Livingston looking down the main street.
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Droster Farm

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior of the Droster farm located on Felland Road. The house was built in 1854.
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Scene on County Trunk F

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Description: View down curving road of a car driving towards the lone house in the distance.
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Hong Kong Police

Date: 1951
Description: Hong Kong police with jeep who followed journalist Cecil Brown as he traveled along the border with Communist China.
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Panoramic Resort at Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 1930
Description: View of a row of cabins at the Panoramic Resort. There are two cars parked on the left.
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Scene on Kickapoo River

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Description: View from shoreline of a car driving over a bridge on the Kickapoo River. There is a ridge of a hill in the background.
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Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1925
Description: View of a church, field, and cemetery from a hilltop. A car drives down the road in the lower-right corner.
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Triangle Tourist Park on Highway US-18/US-12/WI-73

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Description: Exterior of a gas station/restaurant and the entrance to the Triangle Tourist Park.
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Eagle Point Bridge

Date: 1929
Description: View down high bridge of two passenger cars passing one another while crossing over the Mississippi River.
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Highway 61

Date: 1920
Description: View from hillside of car driving down a winding road. Their are cornfields on both sides of the road.

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