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Photograph

Moving Boulder with Bulldozer

Date: 10 1959
Description: Moving a very large boulder with a bulldozer during construction of Highway 94 in Waukesha County.
Photograph

Workers at Mirror Lake Bridge Construction

Date: 1960
Description: View from below looking up towards workers constructing and reinforcing the forms for the footings of the interstate highway bridge at Mirror Lake.
Photograph

Mirror Lake Bridge Construction

Date: 1960
Description: Aerial view of the construction of the interstate highway near Mirror Lake, showing only the early stages of the bridge construction.
Photograph

Mirror Lake Bridge Construction

Date: 11 16 1960
Description: Elevated view of the interstate highway bridge construction at Mirror Lake showing the concrete footings halfway down the embankment.
Photograph

Building I-94 with Earthmover

Date: 10 1959
Description: Construction of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County using an earthmover manufactured by Allis Chalmers.
Photograph

World Trade Center from Parking Lot

Date: 1969
Description: View of the construction of the World Trade Center from a nearby parking lot.
Photograph

Highway 77 Construction

Date: 1930
Description: Construction equipment and dump trucks belonging to the Wagner Erling Company work on the beginnings of Highway 77 in South Dakota.
Photograph

Badger Shovel with McCormick-Deering Engine

Date: 11 11 1937
Description: A man shovels dirt from a highway five miles north of Richmond next to an Austin-Western Badger shovel powered by a McCormick-Deering engine. The equipmen...
Photograph

Roxboro Road

Date: 
Description: A view of men grating the new surface of Roxboro Road, a section of the U.S. Highway. In the background is a steamroller.
Print

Fleetstar Advertising Brochure Cover

Date: 1962
Description: Cover of a brochure advertising International Fleetstar BBC Series 1900 and 2000 semi-trucks. The cover features the IHC logo and an illustration of a man ...
Photograph

International Heavy S-2 Cement Mixer

Date: 1984
Description: An International heavy S-2 cement mixer painted orange is at the top of a hill. In the background is a highway, part of which is under construction.
Photograph

International Truck Operated by Mistletoe Express Service, Inc.

Date: 1944
Description: International highway truck operated by Mistletoe Express Service, Inc. Original caption reads: "The truck shown was traveling on a busy highway leading ou...
Print

International Trucks Alaska Highway Ad

Date: 1943
Description: Advertisement for International trucks featuring a color illustration of men working with an excavator and an International dump truck on the Alcan Highway...
Photograph

Soo Road Overpass

Date: 06 1995
Description: "An overpass over Hwy 41 is being built for Soo Road. The camera faces west with the Tom O'Connor farm in the distance."
Map or Atlas

Heafford Junction Map

Date: 1982
Description: This standard U.S.G.S. topographic map was annotated by civil engineer and railroad historian James P. Kaysen to show the location of existing and defunct ...
Map or Atlas

Sinclair 1931 Official Road Map, Wisconsin

Date: 1931
Description: Road map of Wisconsin featuring the major freeways, highways, and cities. The front contains an index and a guide to the population of the various cities....
Map or Atlas

Diamond Road Map of Wisconsin and United States

Date: 1933
Description: This map shows the major highways and freeways of Wisconsin as well as road surfaces, state parks, points of interest, ferry routes, bridges, and towns whe...
Map or Atlas

Official Road Map, Wisconsin

Date: 1935
Description: This map is presented by Conoco, and shows the major roads, cities, lakes, and rivers, as well as some of the neighboring states. It includes an index, sca...
Map or Atlas

MWM Highway Map, Wisconsin

Date: 1935
Description: This blue lined map ("compliments of Black Eagle Oil Company") shows the major roads and cities of Wisconsin. The map includes an index, hotel and cafe adv...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin and Upper Michigan Road Map

Date: 1936
Description: This map shows road surfaces, construction, flying fields, seaplane landings, populations of cities and towns, and ferry routes of Wisconsin and some of th...

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