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Roads, Highways, and Ecosystems
John Stilgoe, Harvard University
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Students arriving by schoolbus in New Ulm, Minnesota, October 1974 National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency
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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
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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
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Wildflowers along Nevada highway, May 1972 National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency
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Deer lies on roadside after being hit by automobile, Colorado, May 1972 National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency
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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
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Interstate Highway #5 south of Los Angeles, California, May 1975 National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency
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Pacific Highway, Tigard, Oregon, 1973 National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency
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Interstate 80 near Lincoln, Nebraska, 1973 National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency
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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
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Freeway truck streaks by residential street, Cleveland, Ohio, June 1973 National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency
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Aerial view of a residential district between Brownsville and Bremerton, Washington, July 1974 National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency
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[Ducks] Typical Schold Road "traffic" in midafternoon, Seattle, Washington, April, 1974 National Archives / Environmental Protection Agency
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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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