General correspondence and subject file, 1918-1997.

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General correspondence and subject file, 1918-1997.

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Papers and correspondence from the Division of Highways and Transportation Services, relating to highway maintenance, bridges, parkways, flooding, snow removal, highway safety, regional planning, taxes and highway finance, municipal bonding, road schools for training local officials, roadside billboards, public information and education, tourism, complaints, and requests for information. Included are letters, memoranda, reports, articles, policy statements, petitions, draft legislation, hearing proceedings, statistical data, charts, posters, circulars, photographs, blueprints, and maps. The processed portion of this series is summarized above, dates 1918-1993, and is described in the register. There are additional accessions dating 1973 and 1993-1997 which are described below.

538.0 c.f. (538 record center cartons)approximately 700 maps,3314 photographs,1183 negatives, and5 drawings; plusadditions of 14.1 c.f.,27 photographs, and11 negatives.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin. Division of Highways

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With the reorganization of state agencies in 1967, the former State Highway Commission (WIHV85-A1883) became the Division of Highways under the direction of a continuing Highway Commission within the newly created Department of Transportation (WIHV85-A1884). The division was a distinct unity of the department and exercised its powers indpendently of the department head except for budgeting, program, coordination, and related management functions. The Division was renamed the Divisio...

Wisconsin. State Highway Commission

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Wisconsin. Division of Highways and Transportation Services

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The Division of Highways (see WIHV85-A1885) of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (see WIHV85-A1884) became the Division of Highways and Transportation Facilities in 1979. This division in May 1985 merged with the Division of Transportation Districts (WIHV00-A1042) to become the Division of Highways and Transportation Services. It was renamed the division of Highways in 1993 and in 1997, the functions of the division were dispersed to several new divisions. In Wisconsin Stat...