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Before the mid-1920s, #ArchivesOnTheRoad could have cruised the Sunshine Highway in South Dakota in a Fawick Flyer.
These are some of the named automobile routes in South Dakota in 1920: Yellowstone Trail – Ortonville, MN to Hettinger, ND – marked on map with orange. Black and Yellow Trail – Tracy, MN to Sundance, WY – marked on map with yellow. Custer Battlefield Hiway – Sioux City, IA to Sundance, WY – marked […]
Doris Peterson
Oct 4, 20241 min read
Car owners used the Official Automobile Blue Book road atlases to explore the Northern Plains and surrounding areas in the early 1900s. #ArchivesYouAreHere
The atlases contained information on routes, hotels, gas stations, car repair shops, road conditions (including which roads to avoid when it is muddy and which roads had sharp turns). The ads in the book are beautiful and informative about car culture. Volume Ten is in the Archives and Special Collections. Library of Congress sponsors #ArchivesHashtagParty […]
Doris Peterson
Mar 5, 20211 min read
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