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Collection Summary
Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0017
Item: 00648
Title: The Beaudoin Service Station and tourist cabins along U.S. Highway 10, Dickinson (N.D.)
Date: 1938-1942
Inscription/Marks: On the front: "Beaudoin Service Station and coach cabins, Dickinson, N.D.--U.S. 10". On the back: col. 75/648, "Beaudoin Tourist camp, WW. Jeske", and postcard marks.
Summary: A cluster of structures are assembled at the edge of Dickinson (N.D.). The Beaudoin Service Station owners have creatively repurposed three passenger rail cars as roadside housing for tourists motoring on the recently improved U.S. Highway 10. The assembled operation makes an interesting postcard image. Following legislation in 1926, the federal government began systematically improving east-west and north-south transportation corridors throughout the nation. Highway 10 ran from Detroit, Michigan to Seattle, Washington, crossing the entire breadth of North Dakota. Along the improved long-haul highway businesses grew up to provide for the needs of the motorists. The Beaudoin Station with its railcar cabins is one such example of the national trend. In 1939, the Bureau of Public Roads, which had oversight on this overarching project, was transferred to the Federal Works Administration, after the 1938 Federal Aid Highway Act legislation was passed. The pictured service station is a simple square building with a sign above it advertising
Red ID: PH_I_145017 Image ID: 106052 Image Notes: 00075-00648

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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Collection Summary
Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0017
Item: 00648
Title: The Beaudoin Service Station and tourist cabins along U.S. Highway 10, Dickinson (N.D.)
Date: 1938-1942
Inscription/Marks: On the front: "Beaudoin Service Station and coach cabins, Dickinson, N.D.--U.S. 10". On the back: col. 75/648, "Beaudoin Tourist camp, WW. Jeske", and postcard marks.
Summary: A cluster of structures are assembled at the edge of Dickinson (N.D.). The Beaudoin Service Station owners have creatively repurposed three passenger rail cars as roadside housing for tourists motoring on the recently improved U.S. Highway 10. The assembled operation makes an interesting postcard image. Following legislation in 1926, the federal government began systematically improving east-west and north-south transportation corridors throughout the nation. Highway 10 ran from Detroit, Michigan to Seattle, Washington, crossing the entire breadth of North Dakota. Along the improved long-haul highway businesses grew up to provide for the needs of the motorists. The Beaudoin Station with its railcar cabins is one such example of the national trend. In 1939, the Bureau of Public Roads, which had oversight on this overarching project, was transferred to the Federal Works Administration, after the 1938 Federal Aid Highway Act legislation was passed. The pictured service station is a simple square building with a sign above it advertising
Red ID: PH_I_145017 Image ID: 101365 Image Notes: 00075-00648-back

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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