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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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Road Crew

Date: 1919
Description: Road crew working on State Highway 11 (now 14) in Richland County.
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Road Crew

Date: 01 1919
Description: View of the road crew at work on State Highway 11 (now 14) in Richland County.
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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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Road Paving Crew

Date: 1918
Description: Road construction crew at work on the Chicago-St. Francis Road in Milwaukee County. This road was constructed with bulk cement using an integral curb.
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Road Construction with Horses

Date: 1918
Description: Patrolman leveling the surface of State Highway 33 in the town of Excelsior in Sauk County using a team of horses and a wooden grader. Patrolmen were inst...
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Road Patrol Maintenance

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Description: The function known as patrol maintenance is seen performed in St. Croix County along State Highway 12 by a four-horse team pulling a road grader.
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Road Paving Crew

Date: 1950
Description: Improved road paving equipment shown in an unidentified photograph.
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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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Cutting a Subgrade

Date: 1930
Description: Cutting a Subgrade is the original caption of this photograph which shows a dump truck manufactured by the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville pulling...
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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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Interstate Concrete Pour

Date: 1985
Description: As part of a construction job on one of Wisconsin's interstate highways, concrete travels down a series of chutes from the cement mixer to the pour site.
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Interstate Resurfacing

Date: 1985
Description: View from an overpass of a resurfacing operation on I90/94 near Madison.
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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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