Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 84

Photograph

Paving North Main Street

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

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Road Work on University Avenue

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

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...
Photograph

Filling Potholes

Date: 04 27 1987
Description: A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather.
Photograph

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.
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

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 ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Building a Wood Block Road

Date: 1903
Description: Men working on a wood block road.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

P&H Concrete Breaker

Date: 04 15 1916
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...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: