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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Construction work in the streets outside the offices of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company located at 212 Market Street. Two horse-drawn wagons and s... |
| Date: | 07 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Construction of new overhead bridge — viaduct on US Highway 12 and 18 (West Broadway) across the North Western Railroad tracks near the Royal Airport. |
| Date: | 08 19 1929 |
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| Description: | Workers lay pipe and repave University Avenue, looking east along the 2400 block. |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Steam shovel loading a truck as part of road construction in front of Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue. There is a horse-drawn wagon passing by. ... |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Steam shovel loading truck at 2300 University Avenue, Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 11 06 1928 |
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| Description: | Man with jackhammer making street repairs with an air hammer with compressor. Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Co. Saunders Grocery store is across the street a... |
| Date: | 11 06 1928 |
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| Description: | Man with air hammer working on a road near a parked truck. |
| Date: | 11 06 1928 |
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| Description: | A worker is using an air hammer with compressor truck to do work on the road in the 800 block of University Avenue, looking west. Wisconsin Foundry & Machi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Man working on a residential street with a Hough H-30 front loader. The machine was manufactured by the Frank G. Hough Company. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | International TD-30 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) working to widen U.S. Highway 40 near Berthoud Pass in Colorado. The highway wound through the Rocky Moun... |
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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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| Description: | A construction superintendent talks with two highway construction workers (one of whom is a woman), during a resurfacing operation on interstate highway I9... |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | A cement finisher corrects surface imperfections left by the mechanical finisher during a resurfacing project on I90/94. |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | View from an overpass of a resurfacing operation on I90/94 near Madison. |
| Date: | 05 20 1992 |
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| Description: | A concrete finisher stretches to trowel off a spot during construction of the Appleton Tri-County Bridge over the Fox River. |
| Date: | 06 09 1992 |
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| Description: | Close-up of rebar work on the Tri-County Fox River Bridge at Appleton, with cement finishing equipment. |
| Date: | 06 11 1992 |
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| Description: | Employees of Lunda Concrete pour the last section of the Tri-County Fox River Bridge deck. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Blacktopping a new Madison residential street. Construction of the ranch-style houses in the background is almost complete. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Paving Watertown's main street with bricks, with almost as many men who are watching as construction workers. |
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