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Historic Road Travel

Black-and-white images of vintage vehicles on roadways, featuring mountainous terrains and historical contexts from the mid-20th century.

Monument Point, Utah: c. 1868 The Central Pacific Railroad's Jupiter engine passes by a wagon train during the construction of the transcontinental railroad on the north side of the Great Salt Lake.
Monument Point, Utah: c. 1868 The Central Pacific Railroad's Jupiter engine passes by a wagon train during the construction of the transcontinental railroad on the north side of the Great Salt Lake.
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Egypt, Giza, Aeroplane flying over Giza Pyramids
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This Is Worse Than Shoveling Snow -- An auto passes through a single lane cleared by highway crews through an avalanche of mud that engulfed this street during yesterday's rainstorm here. The mud, which came from nearby mountain slopes denuded by brush fires, is piled more than 10 feet high on both sides of the thoroughfare. January 20, 1954. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Trucks, landscapes. undated
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Europe, italy, Tuscany, montecatini, highway section, 1920-30.
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The State Railways, SJ SDU 100403. Special transport to Ortviken Paper Mill. Foundation for grinding machine. Vagnbjörn for road transport
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Poll photo collection. Scotland. Caravan in Scotland. undated. Great Britain, Scotland
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Anefo photo collection. Series drying oosterolder. March 7, 1957
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Poll photo collection. Scotland - On the road by car. Car in hilly landscape with low-hanging clouds. undated. Britain
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Poll photo collection. Israel - Eilat. View of the Eilat Portrein with moored ships and the port installations present there. Links heavily loaded trucks. January 1, 1963. Eilat, Gulf of Akaba, Israel
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Street break in Bohuslän.
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12/31/1962. Trucks passing the Guadarrama tunnel.
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Railway, Florence, Italy / Railroad, Florence, Italy, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, 1880, Record Date Not Stated
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British Bedford Automobile, circa 1935, New Zealand, by Gordon Burt, Gordon H. Burt Ltd.
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Masked way to Tolmein. Southwest Kote 186.
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Masked way to Tolmein.Sufwest Kote 186..
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SkiopT icon with motifs of the mountain pass Falzarego Pass between Andráz and Cortina d'Ampezzo.The image has been stored in cardboard marked: Höstesan 1909. Before and after Canazei 8. N: 16.
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San Francisco, California, November, 1965 The Powell and Hyde Street cable car as it climbs to the top of Russian Hill with Alcatraz Island in the background.
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Travel photos. Automotive with left control (car no. S 99 75-211) during a local passage. View to a mountain range (probably in the Spanish or French Caribbean)
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People standing on the road next to two Ford Prefect A493As, unspecified rural location, Victoria, Australia, 1956, Oceania
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Tricky Landing! R.A.F. Flies Supplies to Greenland Expedition -- It's a tricky landing for Sunderland flying-boat "D for Dog" as it comes down at Young Sound, 'jumping-off' place for the taking of essential stores to Britannia Lake, the main camp of the British North Greenland expedition, some 190 miles away. The stores were taken up by Sunderland flying-boats of the Royal Air Force Coastal Command and by Hasting aircraft of Transport Command. This was the third year in succession that the Royal Air Force undertook to assist the Expedition. August 1, 1953. (Photo by Peter Skingley, United Press Photo).
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First electric train line Härnösand - Sollefteå - Long -Legal Director Erik Upmark
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Warships blocking the coast of Cuba, (1898), 1920s. Artist: Unknown
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181-4-A Completed Road (Fall). 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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04/30/1920. In M`talza. Transportation Service. Convoy of Camels Transporting Tents to the New Camps that were Occupied. Photos Lazaro.
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Excellence Roth after a car accident near Chars in Vinschgau. .
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Restored train traffic Sawah Loento (Sawahlunto) to SOLOK. In order to get rotating the electricity plant in the newly occupied areas, the indispensable coal is removed from Sawah Loento where the ombilin coal fields are located. Immediately after the recovery of the Sawah Loento-Solok railway line, the start was made with the retraction of the coal which was stored at the stationemplacement in Sawah Loento .. January 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra
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Picture taken across the water from on board ship approaching a harbour. It shows a number of manned rowing boats on the water and moored boats alongside the jetty. In the background are large buildings with advertising hoardings across them. Original manuscript caption: Port Said, 1923.
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Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949. Two arabic men at a passenger car along the road. January 1, 1948. Israel
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Between Hafir el Auja & Kosaina. Camel caravan on the move on way to Suez 1934, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine
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Shell petrol tanker, Oriental Bay, circa 1925, Wellington, by Gordon Burt, Gordon H. Burt Ltd.
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USA, Florida, Key West, roadside sign on Overseas Highway