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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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Highway Center Line Marker

Date: 06 1942
Description: A highway employee rides the machine which painted the center line of paved highways.
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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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Interstate Highway Construction

Date: 06 28 1960
Description: Concrete paving operation near the intersection of I-90 and U.S. Highway 12 in Sauk County. Traffic flows along the old highway to the right of the new co...
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Bass Creek Bridge Construction

Date: 1948
Description: Pouring concrete for footings on the Bass Creek Bridge on County Highway D in Rock County. The contractor is Luety Brothers.
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Road Construction Worker

Date: 1959
Description: An employee of the Fox Valley Paving Company pulls the pin from the concrete form during work on Interstate Highway I-90 in Rock County.
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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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Welder

Date: 08 05 1960
Description: A construction worker welds steel to reinforce the concrete columns for the interstate highway near Timme Mill Bridge.
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Interstate Paving

Date: 10 24 1960
Description: One construction worker guides the bucket while others prepare to spread the concrete during construction of the interstate highway near Timme Mill Road.
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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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Gravel Road Surface

Date: 06 14 1951
Description: Crushing gravel to surface STH 101 in Florence County.
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Highway Excavation

Date: 09 27 1933
Description: Excavation, both manual and machine powered, probably between Richland Center and Boaz on STH 14.
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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 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 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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