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Photograph

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.
Photograph

Milwaukee Road Pour

Date: 1920
Description: Workers and inspectors of a mechanized concrete pour somewhere in Milwaukee County. By 1920 Milwaukee was famous for its 18-foot wide concrete roads, the c...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Road Grader

Date: 1920
Description: Advanced, horse-drawn road grader in action. Here, excess dirt moves up a conveyor belt and is dumped in a wagon next to the grader.
Photograph

Road Construction Steam Shovel

Date: 1920
Description: Road construction crew of the Nelson Weber Construction Company and steam shovel. This construction was photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Associati...
Print

Russell Road Roller

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Russell Road Roller. The cover features an illustration of the machinery at work along a rural road and text that ...
Print

Master Drive Road Builder

Date: 1920
Description: Color illustration of the Illinois Super-Drive tractor appearing beneath the heading,:"The Master Drive Road Builder of America. Special Road Building Mode...
Book or Pamphlet

Road Building the Best Way

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the C.L. Best Tractor Company's line of road building equipment, illustrated by a man using a crawler tractor on a ro...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1920
Description: A view of one of the two-course reinforced concrete pavements constructed by the C. Petersen Construction Company, of Kenosha, under the direction of W.F. ...
Photograph

Two Men with Road Building Equipment

Date: 1920
Description: Two men in work clothes are standing posing on construction equipment. On the left is a tractor, and on the right a piece of road building equipment. Both ...

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