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| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Road crew pulling a wooden, apparently homemade, road grader. It is a variation on the "Wisconsin Road Planer," a design perfected by the Highway Commissi... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Highway Commission dump truck photographed outside the Heil Company factory in Milwaukee. The truck was a Nash four-wheel drive model with the body built ... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | State Highway 19 in Jefferson County taken by the Portland Cement Company, probably to represent the modern concrete highway. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Dump trucks and steam shovel of the S.P. Croft Company, a road contractor from Milwaukee, at work at an unidentified Wisconsin site. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of a road crew along State Highway 15 at work constructing a trench for a penetration type shoulder near Kaukauna. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A Kewaunee County road crew poses in front of gravel crushing machinery. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | This photograph from the Wisconsin Highway Commission records is unidentified, but a few internal details helps to understand the content. The Wisconsin li... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A state highway patrolman at work on a dirt road somewhere in Eau Claire County demonstrates how the grader was adjusted for sloped shoulders. At the time... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Workers and inspectors of a mechanized concrete pour somewhere in Milwaukee County. By 1920 Milwaukee was famous for its 18-foot wide concrete roads, the c... |
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