Photograph
Lincoln Highway
| 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 Fisher, creator of the Indianapolis Speedway, as the nation's first improved, transcontinental highway. It ran from New York City to San Francisco. The route did not cross Wisconsin, but it did cross Illinois near the Illinois-Wisconsin border. Until 1925 many roads in addition to the Lincoln Highway were named. In that year the federal government adopted a national numbering convention in which all roads were numbered, with east-west roads numbered in multiples of 10 and north-south highway numbers ending in either 1 or 5. This portion of the Lincoln Highway became US 30. |
| Image ID: | 40207 |
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| Creation Date: | after 1912 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | New Bedford |
| County: | |
| State: | Pennsylvania |
| Collection Name: | Albertype Company photographs, circa 1880s-circa 1950 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | (A6)00241 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 4 inches |
| Field crops |
| Trees |
| Fences |
| Land use, Rural |
| Electric power |
| Automobile driving |
| Automobiles |
| Roads |
| Hills |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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