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The Lincoln Highway around Chicago /
- Title
- The Lincoln Highway around Chicago / Cynthia L. Ogorek.
- Author
- Ogorek, Cynthia L.
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., ©2008.
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Details
- Description
- 127 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Once known as the "Main Street of America," The Lincoln Highway through western Indiana and eastern Illinois became the first urban bypass on the first hard-surfaced transcontinental highway in the nation. Some 200 vintage photographs visit sites that early-day tourists saw, and documents the people who made the highway what is was.
- Series Statement
- Images of America
- Uniform Title
- Images of America.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Contents
- The original route -- The roadway de luxe -- If you build it, they will come -- A different kind of interurban -- How the bypass was bypassed -- The highway as destination.
- ISBN
- 9780738551975
- 073855197X
- 1531632424 (hc)
- 9781531632427 (hc)
- LCCN
- 2007938997
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library