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Paving North Main Street

Date: 1901
Description: A crew of construction workers paving North Main Street with brick.
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Austin Western Grader

Date: 06 16 1926
Description: State Highway Commission worker operating an Austin Western grader built around a McCormick-Deering tractor. The worker is leveling road #2 east of Segourn...
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Men with McCormick-Deering Crawler Tractor

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: Five men are standing with a McCormick-Deering crawler tractor (TracTracTor) during a construction project.
Postcard

Grading Rural Road with Avery Tractor

Date: 1915
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...
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Road Work on University Avenue

Date: 08 19 1929
Description: Workers lay pipe and repave University Avenue, looking east along the 2400 block.
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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...
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Filling Potholes

Date: 04 27 1987
Description: A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather.
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Road Work with a Hough Loader

Date: 1954
Description: Man working on a suburban road with an International ID-6 and attached loader. The loader was manufactured by the Frank G. Hough Company.
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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.
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Road Construction

Date: 
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 ...
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International Tractor Pulling a Road Grader

Date: 1910
Description: A car with four men in business suits and hats is parked at the side of a road. The men are watching as an International Harvester tractor is pulling a roa...
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Road Construction with Excavator and Trucks

Date: 1930
Description: Road construction crews use an excavator to dig while two dump trucks drive by in the background. The trucks are likely Internationals.
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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.
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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.
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Building a Wood Block Road

Date: 1903
Description: Men working on a wood block road.
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TD-18 Tractor and Adams Elevating Grader

Date: 1939
Description: Four men with an International TD-18 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and an Adams Elevating Grader. Caption on photograph reads, "A TD-18 and 42-inch Adams E...
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International TD-14 Tractor

Date: 1939
Description: An International Harvester TD-14 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with "B.E. Bullgrader" levels a mound of dirt for a highway exit. Original caption includes ...
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Gilbert Road Grader in Northern Park

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: W.H. Stuber operates a Gilbert road grader on a road in "Northern Park." Men are standing in the background near a house.
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Man Operating Russell Grader

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: A man operates a grader marked "Russell Motor Patrol No.3" on a rural road.
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Industrial Tractor with Duplex Grader

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: A man stands while operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor and an International duplex grader to smooth a rural dirt road. The original capt...

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