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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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East Mifflin Street Looking North

Date: 1901
Description: View down East Mifflin Street looking north near Blair Street. Men are working on road construction.
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Bridge Construction

Date: 1949
Description: Construction crew pouring concrete by hand on a bridge on Highway 11 near Browntown.
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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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Concrete Pour at Clintonville

Date: 1914
Description: Paving the main street with concrete was an occasion that brought out a large part of the Clintonville community to watch.
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African American Road Crew

Date: 08 1912
Description: Two African American men unloading the cement chute during paving of Janesville Plank Road.
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Patrolman Sealing a Crack

Date: 10 13 1948
Description: A patrolman, as local highway crewmen were known, filling a crack on State Highway 12 in Sauk County.
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Road Crew

Date: 10 20 1948
Description: Construction workers along State Highway 59 putting crack filler into a tar kettle for heating.
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Rocky Shoulder on Highway 51

Date: 1925
Description: View of a road crew along State Highway 15 at work constructing a trench for a penetration type shoulder near Kaukauna.
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Kaukauna Section Patrol

Date: 1925
Description: A Kewaunee County road crew poses in front of gravel crushing machinery.
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Road Paving Crew

Date: 1950
Description: Improved road paving equipment shown in an unidentified photograph.
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Road Grader Angle

Date: 1920
Description: A state highway patrolman at work on a dirt road somewhere in Eau Claire County demonstrates how the grader was adjusted for sloped shoulders. At the time...
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Kewaunee County Road Crew

Date: 
Description: Kewaunee County road crew.
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Finishing a Concrete Job on Interstate

Date: 1985
Description: A cement finisher corrects surface imperfections left by the mechanical finisher during a resurfacing project on I90/94.
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Four Wheel Drive Truck

Date: 
Description: Dump truck manufactured by the Four Wheel Drive Co. of Clintonville and owned by Shawano County. The truck is equipped for rolling and dressing unpaved ro...
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Case Tractor and Grader

Date: 1935
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.
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Case Tractor and Grader

Date: 1935
Description: A Galion E-Z Lift road grader pulled by a Case Model L tractor, allowing a close-up view of the grading machinery.
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Kissel Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Washington County highway worker filling a Kissel-built truck with gravel and crushed rock.
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Kissel Truck

Date: 1919
Description: Kissel truck owned by Washington County entering a gravel pit.
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New Deal Road Work

Date: 07 21 1936
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...

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