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Dedication of Wisconsin's First Expressway

Date: 09 04 1958
Description: Dedication of Wisconsin's first expressway, a seven-mile stretch of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Presiding at the ribbon-cutting ...
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EAA Acrobatics

Date: 1986
Description: Aerial acrobatics at the Experimental Aviation Association (EAA) convention and fly-in at Oshkosh. The EAA encompasses all aspects of sport aviation includ...
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Cicero Field Flight Instructors

Date: 1912
Description: Cicero Field flight instructors Edward Finan (left) and DeLloyd Thompson seated in a Wright Model B airplane at the Chicago International Air Show. The pla...
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Graham-White over Washington, D.C.

Date: 10 14 1910
Description: Claude Graham-White, winner of the Gordon Bennett Race and several other important races in 1910, flying a Farman plane over Washington, D.C. Graham-White ...
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Curtiss Airplane and Glenn Martin

Date: 1909
Description: Glenn Martin, who would become one of the great names in the airplane construction industry, in a Curtiss Pusher during the early days of his career in Cal...
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McCutcheon and Airplane

Date: 1911
Description: Chicago Tribune cartoonist John T. McCutcheon with his Wright Model B airplane, probably photographed at Cicero Field. McCutcheon is sometimes referred to ...
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Jesse Brabazon Over the Mississippi

Date: 11 1912
Description: Jesse Brabazon, pioneer aviator from Delavan, flying over the Mississippi River in a Wright Model B airplane. "It was quite a sight to fly over the Mississ...
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First to Fly — Wilbur Wright

Date: 1912
Description: Wilbur Wright, in profile, with a Wright Flyer. The original photographic postcard from which this image was copied was presented by Wright to pioneer avia...
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Lincoln Beachey

Date: 1915
Description: Lincoln Beachey, shortly before his fatal crash at Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. During his brief career Beachey was the best known, ...
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Roadbuilding Equipment on Interstate 90

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Description: Road construction workers at an unidentified location on I90 & I94 operate a construction machine that combines several steps of the concrete pour process....
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Resurfacing Work on Interstate 90

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Description: A construction superintendent talks with two highway construction workers (one of whom is a woman), during a resurfacing operation on interstate highway I9...
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Interstate Repair

Date: 1985
Description: As part of resurfacing work on the Interstate pieces of concrete and rebar are loaded into an International dump truck.
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Cement Mixer on Interstate Highway

Date: 1985
Description: A Ford Truck cement mixer delivers concrete for a pour during construction on one of the Wisconsin Interstate Highways.
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Finishing a Concrete Job on Interstate

Date: 1985
Description: A cement finisher corrects surface imperfections left by the mechanical finisher during a resurfacing project on I90/94.
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Interstate Concrete Pour

Date: 1985
Description: As part of a construction job on one of Wisconsin's interstate highways, concrete travels down a series of chutes from the cement mixer to the pour site.
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Caterpillar Shovel on Interstate

Date: 1985
Description: A Caterpillar shovel loads excavated concrete and rebar on the back of a dump truck during the course of reconstruction work on one of Wisconsin's intersta...
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Interstate Resurfacing

Date: 1985
Description: View from an overpass of a resurfacing operation on I90/94 near Madison.
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Concrete Finishing Equipment on I90

Date: 1985
Description: Concrete pour on Wisconsin Interstate Highway I-90/94, showing the operation of the concrete smoothing equipment.
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Marquette Interchange

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Description: Aerial view of the first Marquette Interchange, photographed some time after its completion in 1968.
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Midway Motor Lodge

Date: 1977
Description: A Midway Motor Lodge, with the Interstate traffic just behind it.

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