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Road Planer

Date: 1926
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...
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Bad Road Conditions of the 1940s

Date: 04 15 1941
Description: Impassible muddy conditions along State Highway 13 between Butternut and Glidden, with a truck of the Flambeau Freight Lines stuck up to its axles.
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Road Construction Crew

Date: 1920
Description: Dump trucks and steam shovel of the S.P. Croft Company, a road contractor from Milwaukee, at work at an unidentified Wisconsin site.
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Cutting a Subgrade

Date: 1930
Description: Cutting a Subgrade is the original caption of this photograph which shows a dump truck manufactured by the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville pulling...
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Resurfacing Blue Mound Road

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Description: Resurfacing of Blue Mound Road (then State Highway 19), in Waukesha County. The dump truck is spreading an absorbent product. An old, faded state highway m...

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