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Townspeople Improve Township Road

Date: 1920
Description: Original caption reads: "Members of Marshalltown Club at work on township road near Marshalltown, IA (1920). Over fifty members of the Club contributed a d...
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

Road Grader Angle

Date: 1920
Description: A state highway patrolman at work on a dirt road somewhere in Eau Claire County demonstrates how the grader was adjusted for sloped shoulders. At the time...
Photograph

Kissel Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Washington County highway worker filling a Kissel-built truck with gravel and crushed rock.
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...
Photograph

International G-61 Pipe Company Truck

Date: 1920
Description: International Model G-61 truck parked on the side of a dirt road where several men spread gravel(?) for the Shenandoah Valley Pipe Company.
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International G-61 Pipe Company Truck

Date: 1920
Description: International Model G-61 truck parked on the side of a dirt road where several men spread gravel(?) for the Shenandoah Valley Pipe Company. The trailor att...
Photograph

Residential Street Maintenance

Date: 1920
Description: Men use mule-led wagons while working on a residential road. Bricks are piled high on either side of the street.
Photograph

Residential Street Maintenance

Date: 1920
Description: Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground.
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

Tractor with Grid-Iron Grips

Date: 1920
Description: Back cover of a booklet produced by the Grid-Iron Grip Company entitled: "The Tractor Traction Problem Solved: Just like a locomotive, It runs on its own."...
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...
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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