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| Date: | 08 1912 |
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| Description: | Two African American men unloading the cement chute during paving of Janesville Plank Road. |
| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | A patrolman, as local highway crewmen were known, filling a crack on State Highway 12 in Sauk County. |
| 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: | 10 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Construction workers along State Highway 59 putting crack filler into a tar kettle for heating. |
| Date: | 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View of the road crew at work on State Highway 11 (now 14) in Richland County. |
| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Road construction crew at work on the Chicago-St. Francis Road in Milwaukee County. This road was constructed with bulk cement using an integral curb. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Patrolman leveling the surface of State Highway 33 in the town of Excelsior in Sauk County using a team of horses and a wooden grader. Patrolmen were inst... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Improved road paving equipment shown in an unidentified photograph. |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| 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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