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Male and Female, 1919

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Clara Bow with lasso.

Get Your Man publicity portrait by Gene Robert Richee, circa 1927.

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Denise Bellon

Salvador Dali et son mannequin à l’exposition surréaliste, Paris, 1938

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Evelyn Nesbit in early 1900s

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Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Adolph Bolm in Le Carnaval.

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Myrna Loy in Bride of the Regiment (1930)

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Vera Nemchinova en Colombine et Nicolas Zverev, l’Arlequin (Source Bnf), 1915.

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I am she who did not laugh. Was it pity or was it love? Olga Baclanova as Duchess Josiana in THE MAN WHO LAUGHS 1928, dir. Paul Leni

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June 13, 1922: Veterans Bureau employee Viola LaLonde and Census Bureau employee Elizabeth Van Tuyl pose beside a Ford automobile before making their cross-country drive from Washington, DC to San Francisco. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Keep in mind, these women crossed the country before the construction of a national highway system. Forget Econolodges and Denny’s restaurants, they packed their own fuel and food, sleeping in the car.

Eisenhower drove cross country on the Lincoln Highway in 1919 as part of an army convoy which took four months to cross the country. The contrast between that experience and his experience driving on the Autobahn during World War II led to Eisenhower’s proposal for a national highway system.