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| Date: | 08 19 1929 |
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| Description: | Workers lay pipe and repave University Avenue, looking east along the 2400 block. |
| Date: | 11 06 1928 |
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| Description: | Man with jackhammer making street repairs with an air hammer with compressor. Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Co. Saunders Grocery store is across the street a... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Paving the main street with concrete was an occasion that brought out a large part of the Clintonville community to watch. |
| Date: | 07 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers toiling in the sun on the roadside, as a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As a program of the New Deal, it was provided to create j... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south. A jeep sits in the middle of the construction zone. The storefronts are covered with quilts and blankets. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Men using an Adams #5 1/2 Road Grader to work on an urban street. The grader was owned by the State Paving and Construction Co. Original caption states: "G... |
| Date: | 06 29 1937 |
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| Description: | An International D-40 truck used by the Brennan Paving Company is parked in a paved lot in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, while a group of men work in the... |
| Date: | 09 12 1938 |
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| Description: | A man uses an International dump truck to unload dirt in a wooded area between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Two men use a 15-30(?) tractor and a grader on a dirt road. In the background are numerous oil derricks and industrial buildings. |
| Date: | 1994 |
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| Description: | "Blacktop is being laid at this intersection in the Village of Theresa." |
| 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: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View from street of men working on a Works Progress Administration project. A group of men are standing and holding a beam upright in a trench, with a chai... |
| Date: | 06 16 1926 |
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| Description: | View of a man using an Austin Motor Grader on a road. There are houses in the background. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Man operating a Pay Loader to load a Pay Hauler. Other men are working on top of the hill being excavated. D.B. Hill contractors have contract to reconstru... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man operating a Hough Pay Loader to load material into a 350 Pay Hauler. In the background is another Pay Hauler. Morrison-Knudsen Co., ... |
| Date: | 11 13 1971 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man operating a Hough H 400 to move rock. L.R. Skelton and Company has contract to construct 3.25 miles of Interstate I-79 in Clay Count... |
| Date: | 11 13 1971 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men operating a Hough H 400 and PH 180 (T50) to move rocks. L.R. Skelton and Company has contract to construct 3.25 miles of Inte... |
| Date: | 01 20 1972 |
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| Description: | Man operating TD25c Dozer to move earth. Caption reads: "Williams Paving Company has contract to reconstruct and relocate 2.686 miles of route US 60 in New... |
| Date: | 01 19 1972 |
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| Description: | Man operating construction equipment, including a Pay Scraper and Dozer. Caption reads: "Williams Paving Company has contract to reconstruct and relocate 2... |
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