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Roads, Highways, and Ecosystems John Stilgoe, Harvard University ©National Humanities Center Illustration Credits
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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