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Roads, Highways, and Ecosystems
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Description | Repository/ID Information |
Students arriving by schoolbus in New Ulm, Minnesota, October 1974 | National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency NWDNS-412-DA-15756 |
Missouri, 1909; farm and city life | Library of Congress PAN US GEOG – Missouri, no. 15 |
“Easter morning”: New York City’s Fifth Avenue bustling with horse-drawn traffic and two motor cars, 1900 | National Archives NWDNS-30-N-18827 |
Horses pulling car along a muddy road, 1910 | Minnesota Historical Society |
Dirt road, Leon County, Florida, ca. 1890 | Florida State Archives |
Sentinel Butte, North Dakota, 1915; panorama view | Library of Congress PAN US GEOG – North Dakota, no. 2 |
Florida prison inmates making a road, 1928 | Florida State Archives |
Isaac B. Potter, The Gospel of Good Roads: A Letter to the American Farmer, 1891, title page | Hal S. Barron, Mixed Harvest: The Second Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997, p. 29 |
Steam roller, 1910 | Minnesota Historical Society |
Macadam road leading to the University of Gainesville, Florida, 1910 | Florida State Archives |
Road drag, 1910 | Harry Darius Ayer, Minnesota Historical Society |
"How to Make Good Dirt Roads," Henry Wallace, 1905 | the Barron book, p. 36 |
Putting in street pavement at Kerkhoven [Swift County], 1925 [postcard] | Charles Lincoln Merryman, Minnesota Historical Society |
Laying concrete highway, 1923 | K. L. Fenney Co., Minnesota Historical Society |
Paving road between Northfield and Faribault, Rice County, Minnesota, 1920 | Minnesota Historical Society |
New federal highway from Miami to Homestead, Florida, 1935 | Florida State Archives |
Overturned car, 1915 | Emil King, Minnesota Historical Society |
Highway 10 near Panama City, 1936 | Florida State Archives |
Man sitting with car that was run into a ditch, 1929 | Minnesota Historical Society |
Gray tractor pulling road grader, 1910 | Minnesota Historical Society |
Grading road, 1920 | Minnesota Historical Society |
John Brown and a friend in a ca. 1908 Model T Ford automobile, Alachua, Florida, 1910? | Florida State Archives |
Deaconess Bedell in her Model A, between 1933 and 1960, Florida | Florida State Archives |
“You have to slow down to 90 for the curves” – Goodrich ad, c. 1950 | Goodrich |
Florida Highway 25 under construction, Miami, June 1960 | Florida State Archives |
New Highway 30 near Tupper Lake, New York, shows fine grading, drainage fields, and grassing for erosion control, in the Adirondack Forest Preserve, July 1973 | National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency NWDNS-412-DA-12114 |
Wildflowers along Nevada highway, May 1972 | National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency NWDNS-412-DA-6484 |
Deer lies on roadside after being hit by automobile, Colorado, May 1972 | National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency NWDNS-412-DA-1293 |
Aerial of interchange, District of Columbia: rush hour traffic jam where three-lane Maryland Beltway enters two-lane Virginia Beltway and northern end of the George Washington Parkway, District of Columbia, May 1973 | National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency NWDNS-412-DA-4246 |
Interstate Highway #5 south of Los Angeles, California, May 1975 | National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency NWDNS-412-DA-15019 |
Pacific Highway, Tigard, Oregon, 1973 | National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency NWDNS-412-DA-12986 |
Interstate 80 near Lincoln, Nebraska, 1973 | National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency NWDNS-412-DA-4807 |
Putting on tire chains during snowstorm on Lookout Mountain, Colorado, 1916 | Denver Public Library |
Street maintenance crew salting city streets, 1940 | Minnesota Historical Society |
Highway and school bus after storm near North Conway, New Hampshire, March 1940 | Library of Congress LC-USF34-053358-D |
Freeway truck streaks by residential street, Cleveland, Ohio, June 1973 | National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency NWDNS-412-DA-7616 |
Aerial view of a residential district between Brownsville and Bremerton, Washington, July 1974 | National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency NWDNS-412-DA-14504 |
[Ducks] Typical Schold Road "traffic" in midafternoon, Seattle, Washington, April, 1974 | National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency NWDNS-412-DA-14535 |
Travelling on Roosevelt Highway, California, no date | Los Angeles Public Library Photographer: Herman Schultheis |
Cahuenga Pass, Hollywood Freeway, California, aerial view, no date | Los Angeles Public Library |
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