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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mogul 30-60 kerosene tractor pulling an elevating grader in road construction project. The project was part of the "good roads movement" in Missouri. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | International Titan 45 tractor pulling a 42,000 pound load on an attached wagon car in front of a warehouse owned by Merchants Transfer and Storage. The Ti... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Road workers grading a rural country road with an Avery tractor and wooden grading blocks. The image was cropped from a postcard collected by International... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Superior, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota on opposite shore of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Man driving an automobile down a muddy dirt road. Caption on back reads: "Grading road with surfacing." The photograph was taken for International Harveste... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an African American prisoner hauling goods with a horse-drawn wagon. Original caption reads: "Baled alfalfa, bacon, flour and grain which... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bascom Hall exterior, formerly Main Hall, from the north path, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Man sitting behind the wheel of an International Model F truck parked on a city street in front of the Blackstone Theatre. The truck was owned by a Firesto... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | 101-103 State Hook Brothers pianos; 105 State Findlay Flat Iron Building; 107 State Shiphe & Dorn grocers; 109 State Exclsior Shoe Store; 111 State Woman'... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Entrance to Range Camp. Caption reads: "Entrance to Range Camp, Camp Douglas, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Avenue looking toward the northwest from the top of the Capitol. The elevated perspective provides an unusual view of the old City Hall (left) an... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Losey Memorial Arch, built in honor of Joseph W. Losey. Mr. Losey was an early pioneer lawyer of the town, made District Attorney in 1857 and City Atto... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View across road towards Governor Nelson Dewey's house. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of the Carl Schurz home shortly before it was destroyed by fire. Caption reads: "Home of Hon. Carl Schurz, Watertown, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A row of conical burial mounds adjoins the Park and Pleasure Drive on the north shore of Lake Wingra (now Edgewood Drive, at the south edge of Edgewood Col... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of the Chicago Stageroad marker erected by the local Daughters of the American Revolution. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Gateway to the Sauk City Bridge from the Dane County side. The sign on the pillar on the left reads: "Wisconsin River" and the sign on the right pillar rea... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Street lined on both sides with homes and trees. Caption reads: "Watson St. North, Ripon, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of an unidentified road, probably near Manitowoc, illustrating typical road conditions of the era. |
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