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Road Planer

Date: 1926
Description: Road crew pulling a wooden, apparently homemade, road grader. It is a variation on the "Wisconsin Road Planer," a design perfected by the Highway Commissi...
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Road Construction Crew

Date: 1920
Description: Dump trucks and steam shovel of the S.P. Croft Company, a road contractor from Milwaukee, at work at an unidentified Wisconsin site.
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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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Testing New Equipment

Date: 1922
Description: This photograph from the Wisconsin Highway Commission records is unidentified, but a few internal details helps to understand the content. The Wisconsin li...
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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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Kissel Truck

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

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