Highway maintenance photographs, 1925.

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Highway maintenance photographs, 1925.

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Photographs documenting road conditions, maintenance work, and the landscape along state trunk highways and county trunk highways throughout Wisconsin, including the Menominee Indian Reservation. The images were made in 1925 by N. M. Isabella, who was a maintenance engineer for the Highway Commission.

160 photographs (1 archives box) and112 negatives (2 boxes).

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6924129

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin. Highway Commission.

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The Highway Commission was created by Chapter 337, Laws of 1911. State Laws of 1929 reorganized the commission from a five person, part-time agency to a three-person, full-time agency. With the reorganization of state government agencies in 1967 (Chapter 75), the Highway Commission was placed under the newly created Department of Transportation (see WIHV85-A1884). Chapter 29, Laws of 1977 created an independent Transportation Commission (see WIHV85-A214) which took over many of the ...