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| Date: | 04 27 1987 |
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| Description: | A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of two men standing on a snowy street with the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the background. They are holding snow shovels. |
| Date: | 07 31 1947 |
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| Description: | Highway lane painting truck painting lane lines on Highways 12-13-14, University Avenue between Madison and Middleton. This is the first highway in the sta... |
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| Description: | Two men wearing hats, one of whom is carrying a bucket and a tool, walking across the street from a large building. |
| 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: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A crew of men laying sewer pipe with a Hough payloader. Original caption states: "Hough Payloader laying sewer pipe sections weighing 200 lbs each. Equipme... |
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| Description: | Men pumping DDT from a tank on the back of a truck to be sprayed into a field. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A crew of men crushing rock for Senator James H. Stout's improved highway. |
| Date: | 04 15 1916 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger concrete breaker on a residential street with a operator in the cab. Men are working in the street, and trees and power lines are l... |
| Date: | 04 18 1916 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger gasoline powered concrete breaker on a residential street with an operator in the cab and men working on the ground. Houses and yar... |
| Date: | 05 17 1938 |
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| Description: | Three men load garbage onto the back of an International DS-35 truck owned by the City of Louisville, while two men sit in the truck's cab. The truck is on... |
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| Description: | A group of manual laborers posing for a portrait in front of a tailor's shop. The men apparently work pouring concrete to make sidewalks and are posing wit... |
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| Description: | View toward seven men resurfacing a section of Roxboro Road. There is a steam roller in the foreground. |
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| 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. |
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| Description: | View down a road being constructed in Havana, Cuba. Two men are standing and talking on the road, and other men working on the road in tharee distance. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand... |
| Date: | 08 29 1930 |
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| Description: | Two cranes and a car at the bridge construction site. Several workers work on carving out the road at the edge of the river. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of telephone company workmen erecting telephone pole with a horse-drawn derrick. |
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