Some Great 1939 Pix Of The Lh In Nebraska

[Larry F.]

The Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, at Grand Island, Nebraska, is probably well-known to many who will read this. If you haven't been there, it's well worth a stop some time when you're traveling either the Lincoln Highway or that other wider, less-interesting highway known as Interstate 80!

 

From the Museum's website: "...David H. Traill...the traveling executive sectary for the Iowa-Nebraska Lincoln Highway Association. This album appears to have been part of a photographic survey conducted by Traill of directional signs along the Lincoln Highway in Nebraska in the summer of 1939."

 

These are some truly historic pictures of billboards serving as directional and promotional signs for the Lincoln Highway.

 

Worth looking at

http://www.stuhrmuseum.org/westerntrails/traill.htm

 

The Stuhr has other info about the Lincoln Highway, too, at

http://www.stuhrmuseum.org/westerntrails/lincoln_hwy.htm

[Keep the Show on the Road!]

The Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, at Grand Island, Nebraska, is probably well-known to many who will read this. If you haven't been there, it's well worth a stop some time when you're traveling either the Lincoln Highway or that other wider, less-interesting highway known as Interstate 80!

 

From the Museum's website: "...David H. Traill...the traveling executive sectary for the Iowa-Nebraska Lincoln Highway Association. This album appears to have been part of a photographic survey conducted by Traill of directional signs along the Lincoln Highway in Nebraska in the summer of 1939."

 

These are some truly historic pictures of billboards serving as directional and promotional signs for the Lincoln Highway.

 

Worth looking at

http://www.stuhrmuseum.org/westerntrails/traill.htm

 

The Stuhr has other info about the Lincoln Highway, too, at

http://www.stuhrmuseum.org/westerntrails/lincoln_hwy.htm

 

Larry,

 

I copied below a section from a journal on the site describing getting stuck at Fish Springs (Utah) on the Lincoln in 1915. Heads up, Roadhound. And thanks again for the tip

 

In the dessert [sic] near Fish Springs we encountered other cars were stuck here also, 17 people in all. One car carried neither food nor bedding and the others shared with them. The second day the five men of the party took our car, unloaded of every ounce of extra weight, B. driving, the others on the running board and ready to jump off and push whenever they came to a bad place. So got back to Fish Springs for water and food

 

The sign photos are interesting as well. I especially liked the shots that show the old narrow two lane roads, of the late 30's. It is easy today when we travel our improved two laners with their wide shoulders that that wasn't true in the 30's and 40's.

 

I bet Traill didn't expect his photos to be museum exhibits one day!

Keep the Show on the Road!

[mobilene]

What a fascinating resource! jim