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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: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of men building a corderoy road in the 1860's. Used for historical display for the Wisconsin State Highway Department. |
| 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. ... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin highway patrolman grading with a team of horses. Image taken for the Wisconsin Good Roads Association. |
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| Description: | Road construction just north of the Crawford-Vernon County line on State Highway 27, showing both the new and old routes. According to the caption on the ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Road construction crew of the Nelson Weber Construction Company and steam shovel. This construction was photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Associati... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men spreading gravel from a horse-drawn dump wagon onto a road. The wagon was manufactured by Road Machine Co. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men use mule-led wagons while working on a residential road. Bricks are piled high on either side of the street. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Large Mogul tractor pulling a grader along a dirt road. Two men ride in the tractor, while three others supervise from behind the tractor. |
| Date: | 02 15 1915 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a suit and hat is standing on a wooden grader while driving two mules along a dirt road. Beside the road behind him are cows in a fenced-in f... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of a pamphlet advertising Cletrac tank-type tractors featuring a photograph of a man using a Cletrac crawler tractor to haul a wagon. ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Men using horse-drawn and gasoline powered road equipment work on Highway 80 near Rockbridge. A wooded bluff rises steeply behind a farmhouse. Barns, a sil... |
| Date: | 05 1902 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four men and two boys standing with horses, oxen and mules hitched up to drag scrapers, to reconstruct a dirt road. A small building, pow... |
| Date: | 05 1902 |
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| Description: | Group portrait, with Ernst Goetsch standing on a dirt road next to a team of oxen hitched up to a drag scraper on the left, and a team of oxen on the right... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from street of exterior of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. office. Men are standing in the street on the left near a man on a horse-drawn wagon. ... |
| Date: | 08 08 1927 |
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| Description: | View from rear of a group of men clearing trees for road construction. A man is driving a continuous track tractor to pull a piece of construction equipmen... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View towards a man working on building a road. In the background is a dog, and farm buildings. Subject: "TD-24 — Road Building." Where Taken: "MW." Informa... |
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| Description: | Four men are posing atop different carts, one of which is hitched to horses, and an engine. Caption reads: "This is me on the engine I worked on this summe... |
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