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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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Men Paving Street with International Heavy-Duty Truck

Date: 08 12 1924
Description: Crew of African American workmen paving a city street behind an International heavy-duty truck.
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Austin Western Grader

Date: 06 16 1926
Description: State Highway Commission worker operating an Austin Western grader built around a McCormick-Deering tractor. The worker is leveling road #2 east of Segourn...
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Farmall M Leveling Gravel at Hinsdale Farm

Date: 1949
Description: Worker leveling gravel with a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor and a no. 7 angle dozer at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm and testing facility.
Photograph

International Diesel TD-24 Crawler Tractor with Dual Roller

Date: 1948
Description: Color photograph of an International Diesel TD-24 crawler tractor with a sheepsfoot roller used for road construction on the south side of Dorena Lake Dam.
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Men with McCormick-Deering Crawler Tractor

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: Five men are standing with a McCormick-Deering crawler tractor (TracTracTor) during a construction project.
Drawing

Building Corderoy Road

Date: 1948
Description: Pencil drawing of men building a corderoy road in the 1860's. Used for historical display for the Wisconsin State Highway Department.
Postcard

Grading Rural Road with Avery Tractor

Date: 1915
Description: Road workers grading a rural country road with an Avery tractor and wooden grading blocks. The image was cropped from a postcard collected by International...
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Road Work on University Avenue

Date: 08 19 1929
Description: Workers lay pipe and repave University Avenue, looking east along the 2400 block.
Photograph

Paving University Avenue

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: Steam shovel loading a truck as part of road construction in front of Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue. There is a horse-drawn wagon passing by. ...
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Paving University Avenue

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: Steam shovel loading truck at 2300 University Avenue, Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue.
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Townspeople Improve Township Road

Date: 1920
Description: Original caption reads: "Members of Marshalltown Club at work on township road near Marshalltown, IA (1920). Over fifty members of the Club contributed a d...
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Filling Potholes

Date: 04 27 1987
Description: A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather.
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Mogul Kerosene Tractor and Austin Road Grader

Date: 1912
Description: Road workers leveling road with International Mogul 45 or 30-60 kerosene tractor and Austin Mammoth Steel Reversible Road Machine.
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Road Work with a Hough Loader

Date: 1954
Description: Man working on a suburban road with an International ID-6 and attached loader. The loader was manufactured by the Frank G. Hough Company.
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Road Work with Hough H-30 Front Loader

Date: 1950
Description: Man working on a residential street with a Hough H-30 front loader. The machine was manufactured by the Frank G. Hough Company.
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Convict Labor During World War I

Date: 09 1917
Description: South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone...
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International TD-30 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1961
Description: International TD-30 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) working to widen U.S. Highway 40 near Berthoud Pass in Colorado. The highway wound through the Rocky Moun...
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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.
Photograph

Road Paving Crew

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

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