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| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Construction at an unidentified interstate highway intersection in Wisconsin showing the scaffolding in place on a completed span on which the upper span w... |
| Date: | 07 1968 |
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| Description: | Interstate Highway I-90 sign erected to point out to motorists the use of tax dollars in highway improvements. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | View taken from below of the Interstate Highway I-535 bridge during construction. |
| Date: | 06 14 1951 |
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| Description: | Crushing gravel to surface STH 101 in Florence County. |
| Date: | 09 21 1933 |
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| Description: | Employees of Anderson & Sons, a Minneapolis construction company, surfacing and curing USH 53 in Douglas County. |
| Date: | 07 25 1950 |
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| Description: | Road crew applying a product known as RCS3 Bitumen, a particular type of asphalt, to seal the surface of STH 47 in Langlade County. |
| Date: | 09 27 1933 |
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| Description: | Cabins for employees of the Interstate Construction Company working near Richland Center and Boaz. Road construction sites were frequently far from accommo... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Dump trucks and steam shovel of the S.P. Croft Company, a road contractor from Milwaukee, at work at an unidentified Wisconsin site. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the paving operation of Joseph D. Bonners, Inc., on St. Martins Road at Hales Corners. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Workers and inspectors of a mechanized concrete pour somewhere in Milwaukee County. By 1920 Milwaukee was famous for its 18-foot wide concrete roads, the c... |
| Date: | 09 22 1933 |
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| Description: | Paving operation on the section of State Highway 139 in Lafayette County locally known as the Platteville-Belmont Road. |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | As part of resurfacing work on the Interstate pieces of concrete and rebar are loaded into an International dump truck. |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | A Ford Truck cement mixer delivers concrete for a pour during construction on one of the Wisconsin Interstate Highways. |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | A Caterpillar shovel loads excavated concrete and rebar on the back of a dump truck during the course of reconstruction work on one of Wisconsin's intersta... |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | View from an overpass of a resurfacing operation on I90/94 near Madison. |
| Date: | 06 30 1992 |
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| Description: | View from below of the Fox River Bridge. Gordon Neitzke who photographed the Fox River Bridge for the Wisconsin Department of Highways, found an almost cat... |
| Date: | 05 20 1992 |
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| Description: | A concrete finisher stretches to trowel off a spot during construction of the Appleton Tri-County Bridge over the Fox River. |
| Date: | 10 1959 |
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| Description: | Construction of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County using an earthmover manufactured by Allis Chalmers. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | This image which was probably taken for publicity purposes by the company, shows a J.I. Case Model L tractor pulling a Galion E-Z Lift road grader. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of early construction at the Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee, the junction of Interstate Highways I94 and I43. Construction began in 1964, ... |
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