Caption

West Wendover, Nevada - A monument with a bronze eagle marks the Victory Highway, a cross-country auto route from the early 1920s that predates the numbered highway system. Most of the Victory Highway later became U.S. Highway 40

Date

Sep 27, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jim West

Reference

BRK25L09_218

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

86,1Mb (4,7Mb) / 22,4in x 14,9in / 6720 x 4480 (300dpi)

Keywords

Memorial forty Nevada North America USA America tourism early American historic highway road marking numbered turn of the century US-American 1920s system journey marked West bronze Route Motorway system autoroute Monument United States of America historical freeway street Marker Trip marks Memorial site 40 United States Motorway travel Western US-America voyage Memorials highways roads markings systems historically streets Markers voyages historical image history image history images Straße 1920