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Photograph of cars driving Interstate-15 in Salt Lake City after completion in 1968.
Exterior of the Beeline Refining Company gas station. Beeline had five different gas stations in the downtown Salt Lake area.
Photograph of retaining wall construction for the interstate next to the Se Rancho Motor Lodge in 1959.
Electrical Products electric sign for Dee's Hamburgers. Cars fill the drive-in of the restaurant. A telephone booth is in the foreground of the picture.
Photograph of a man guiding traffic during interstate construction in Salt Lake City 1961.
Photograph of the Franklin School, historically located on southwest corner, 700 West and 200 South. Currently at southwest corner, 800 West and 200 South. Donated by William H. Shipler.
Classified advertisement for homes in Highland Park neighborhood directed toward freeway displaced west side residents.
Human interest story on a young boy who was reunited with his lost dog after his family was moved following the west side freeway development.
Classified advertisement for homes in local developments directed toward freeway displaced west side residents.
Classified advertisement for homes in Rose Park neighborhood directed toward freeway displaced west side residents.
Photograph of demolition and tree removal for freeway development at 1st South and 14th North in Salt Lake City taken 1959.
Newspaper article on the Swede Town neighborhood of the west side noting its decline, but continued presence in Salt Lake City, puublished on Decemeber 9, 1976.
Newspaper article advocating an attack on the "blighted housing problem" in the west side after completion of the freeway, published on September 14, 1964.
Photograph showing the construction of an underpass between Fourteenth North and First South in Salt Lake City in 1961.
Photograph of New York City Park Commissioner Robert Moses with model of proposed Battery Bridge.
A 2006 map of Minneapolis, created by architect Adam Paul Susaneck using historic aerial photography, highlighting the freeway and urban renewal projects.
A 1947 map of Minneapolis, created by architect Adam Paul Susaneck using historic aerial photography, highlighting areas that would eventually be the freeway and urban renewal projects.
Aerial photograph of Salt Lake City from 1950. Salt Lake City features the distinct Mormon Grid, with 660-foot, 10-acre blocks, yet the ubiquitous superblock still makes an appearance at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Temple Square, the heart of…
Aerial photograph of Salt Lake City from 1950. Salt Lake City features the distinct Mormon Grid, with 660-foot, 10-acre blocks, yet the ubiquitous superblock still makes an appearance at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Temple Square, the heart of…
Photograph of parked cars lined up along both lanes of a three-lane highway for the dedication of Interstate-15 (I-15). Passengers are visible sitting in the parked cars while some are standing outstide of their cars. Two standing persons hold…
A drawing of the belt route and Salt Lake interstate network by Design Engineer Herbert M. Fehmel, created in service for the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT).
A drawing of the 5th and 6th South interstate interchange system by Design Engineer Herbert M. Fehmel, created in service for the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT).
Road Commission Resident Engineer Ed Kennelly and Information Officer Horace Gunn stand before the retaining wall construction site next to the Se Rancho Motor Lodge in 1959.
Photograph of semi-trucks on dirt roads during the construction of Interstate-15 (I-15) in 1959.
Photograph of survey workers at the interstate construction site during tree removal.
Photograph of workers and supervisors at the interstate construction site during tree removal.
Photograph of heavy machinery at the interstate construction site during tree removal.
Photograph of Lamont B. Toronto, Secretary of State, at the steering wheel of a bulldozer at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Salt Lake City Freeway, 1959.
Photograph of a crowd gathered around a bulldozer driven by Lamont B. Toronto, Secretary of State, at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Salt Lake City Freeway, 1959.
Photograph of a crowd gathered around Lamont B. Toronto, Secretary of State, giving remarks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Salt Lake City Freeway, 1959.
Photograph of Lamont B. Toronto, Secretary of State, standing atop a bulldozer during a blizzard at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Salt Lake City Freeway, 1959.
Third page of the Salt Lake City Freeway Highway Agencies program from the 1959 groundbreaking ceremony, held on January 28, 1959 at Sixth West & Fourth North. Features an illustrative drawing of the intended placement of the freeway in correlation…
Second page of the Salt Lake City Freeway Highway Agencies program from the 1959 groundbreaking ceremony, held on January 28, 1959 at Sixth West & Fourth North.
First page of the Salt Lake City Freeway Highway Agencies program from the 1959 groundbreaking ceremony, held on January 28, 1959 at Sixth West & Fourth North.
U.S. Geological Survey topographic map of the North Salt Lake City Quadrangle in 1963. Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey. Topography from aerial photographs by multiplex methods and by plane-table surveys 1925, 1934, and 1951.…
U.S. Geological Survey topographic map of the North Salt Lake City Quadrangle in 1951. Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey. Topography from aerial photographs by multiplex methods and by plane-table surveys 1925, 1934, and 1951.…
This state portrait of George Dewey Clyde (1957-1965), commissioned by famous Utah artist Everett Clark Thorpe, shows the Utah Governor holding the plans for the Glen Canyon Dam under his arm, and a vibrant Utah landscape (complete with dam) in the…
Photo of Jane Jacobs during her advocacy against the Washington Square Expressway. Mrs. Jane Jacobs, chairman of the Comm. to save the West Village holds up documentary evidence at press conference at Lions Head Restaurant at Hudson & Charles…
Photograph of picketers protesting against the San Francisco Embarcadero Freeway marching at City Hall on April 18 1961.
Political cartoon by Etta Hulme. This cartoon appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. This cartoon shows a bulldozer labeled "Highway Fund Bill" pushing a pile of dirt with a school house on it labeled "school financing." There is a smaller house…
A drawing of the 5th and 6th South interstate interchange system by Design Engineer Herbert M. Fehmel, created in service for the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT).
Map of Interstate Highway plans from September 1955. The Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) was originally a part of the United States Department of Agriculture then the United States Department of Commerce. The BPR is the predecessor agency to the Federal…
Newspaper article discussing a public hearing on the proposed 6th West highway routing, published on March 31, 1950.
Newspaper article discussing the west side demands for considerations during ongoing highway plans, published July 28, 1950.
Newspaper article discussing the west side residents upset and fight againt the highway, published on January 13, 1948.
Newspaper article discussing west side protest to the proposed 6th West highway routing, published on March 28, 1950.
Fourth page of Utah Highways Department's Highways and Byways newsletter, published in October of 1957.
U.S. Geological Survey topographic map of Salt Lake City and the surrounding Western United States. Prepare by the Army Map Service (ASSX), Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, Washington D. C. Compiled in 1955 by photo-planimetric methods using road data…