Wisconsin. Office of Transportation Safety: Safety Scrapbooks, 1936-1958
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Summary Information
Title: Wisconsin. Office of Transportation Safety: Safety Scrapbooks
Inclusive Dates: 1936-1958

Creator:
  • Wisconsin. Office of Transportation Safety
Call Number: Series 1118; PH Series 1118

Quantity: 9.0 c.f. (9 record center cartons) and photographs

Repository:
Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Scrapbooks, 1946-1958, prepared annually by the Division of Highway Safety Promotion of the Motor Vehicle Department as part of Wisconsin's participation in the National Traffic Safety Contest (later the Annual Inventory of Traffic Safety Activities competition conducted by the National Safety Council), together with photographs about safety activities compiled for earlier, similar uses. The compilations were used by the council as the basis for making awards to states and localities on the basis of their accident and death records and the quality of their overall safety programs. Wisconsin also participated in the National Pedestrian Protection Control of the American Automobile Association.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser01118
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Scope and Content Note

The reports include investigations into traffic control, accidents, and arrests; information about education campaigns for schools and the general public; reports; tables; charts; photographs; film catalogs; newsletters; and drivers manuals. The photographic prints and negatives (1936-1939) document community safety parades, driver clinics, school safety patrols, and other safety related activities. Volume 1 of the scrapbooks for the years 1945 and 1946 were not received from the agency.

Contents List
Series 1118
Annual Inventory of Traffic Safety Activities (National Traffic Safety Contest) scrapbooks
Box   1
1945, Volume 1
Box   1
1946, Volumes 2-4
1947
Box   1
Volumes 5-6
Box   2
Volumes 7-9 and supplement
1948
Box   2
Volumes 10-11
Box   3
Volume 12
Box   3
1949, Volumes 13-15
Box   4
1950, Volumes 16-18
1951
Box   4
Volume 19
Box   5
Volumes 20-22
1952
Box   5
Volumes 23-24
Box   6
Volume 25
1953
Box   6
Volumes 26-28
Box   7
Volume 29
1955
Box   7
Volumes 30-32
Box   8
Volumes 33-34
Box   8
1956, Volumes 35-37
Box   9
1957, Volumes 38-40
Box   9
1958, Volumes 41-42
PH Series 1118
Photographs
Folder   1
Accidents (from miscellaneous sources, many from traffic officers), 1936
Folder   2
Bicycles, Oconto, 1937
Folder   3
Safety council activities, 1937
Folder   4
La Crosse country rural school safety picnic, 1938
Folder   5
Driver clinics, 1938
Folder   6
Safety parades, 1938
Folder   7
Railroad crossings, 1938
Folder   8
Spot mop “dim,” 1939
Folder   9
Police first aid, Stevens Point, 1939
Folder   10
Awards, Stevens Point, 1939
Folder   11
National Safety Council, Wisconsin award to O'Brien and Burdick, 1939
Folder   12
School Safety Patrol trip to Washington, D.C., 1939
Note: Heil in the picture?
Folder   13
Driver clinic at , 1939 State Fair
Folder   14
Dane County Highway Commission truck, 1939
Folder   15
Safety Council officials
Folder   16
Safety Department personnel
Folder   17
Animated display