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Soo Road Overpass

Date: 06 1995
Description: "An overpass over Hwy 41 is being built for Soo Road. The camera faces west with the Tom O'Connor farm in the distance."
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Grading the Road

Date: 1931
Description: Men using horse-drawn and gasoline powered road equipment work on Highway 80 near Rockbridge. A wooded bluff rises steeply behind a farmhouse. Barns, a sil...
Photograph

Alabama Road Work

Date: 05 1902
Description: Group portrait of four men and two boys standing with horses, oxen and mules hitched up to drag scrapers, to reconstruct a dirt road. A small building, pow...
Photograph

Alabama Road Construction

Date: 05 1902
Description: Group portrait, with Ernst Goetsch standing on a dirt road next to a team of oxen hitched up to a drag scraper on the left, and a team of oxen on the right...
Postcard

Street Construction at J. Ohlenforst Bakery

Date: 1906
Description: Traffic to the J. Ohlenforst Bakery at 529 S. Sixth Street, in the Walker's Point neighborhood, is impeded by street construction. There are piles of grave...
Postcard

A Neighborhood Gathering

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of neighborhood children and adults gathered on a street in the S. Sixth Street neighborhood of Walker's Point that is being re-paved. Many ...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin-Madison Ladies' Hall

Date: 1900
Description: A southeast view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Ladies' Hall. In the foreground two men are working in the road among piles of dirt and rock.
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Southeast Corner of the University of Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: A southwest corner view of the University of Wisconsin campus, from University Avenue just east of Park Street. A group of men are working in the road amon...
Photograph

Three Men Sitting on a Road Grader

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Description: View down middle of unpaved road towards three men sitting on the back of a road grader in a rural area. Two of the men are wearing suits and hats, and the...
Photograph

Exterior View of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Office

Date: 1900
Description: View from street of exterior of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. office. Men are standing in the street on the left near a man on a horse-drawn wagon. ...
Photograph

Photographer's Silhouette on Unidentified Street

Date: 
Description: Perspective view of an unidentified street paved with gravel, with the photographer's silhouette. There is a house on a hill on the right, and more houses ...
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Tractor for Road Construction

Date: 04 24 1908
Description: Men using a tractor for road construction.
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Road Construction

Date: 06 11 1909
Description: Group of men working on a road with a large tractor. There is a bridge in the background.
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Six-Wheeler on W.P.A. Project

Date: 1939
Description: View from street of men working on a Works Progress Administration project. A group of men are standing and holding a beam upright in a trench, with a chai...
Photograph

Six-Wheeler on W.P.A. Project

Date: 1939
Description: View across street towards men working on a Works Progress Administration project. Three men are standing and holding a board with a chain attached to it n...
Photograph

Man Using Austin Motor Grader

Date: 06 16 1926
Description: View of a man using an Austin Motor Grader on a road. There are houses in the background.
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Road Work Near Red Dot

Date: 
Description: Workers doing road work near the Red Dot factory, in the background, on East Washington Avenue.
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Man Operating TD-25

Date: 1972
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man operating a TD-25 on the side of a hill. There is a valley in the background. Vecellio and Grogan, Inc., workin...
Photograph

Men Operating Pay Haulers and Pay Loader

Date: 1972
Description: Elevated view of men operating Pay Haulers and a Pay Loader at the top of a hill. Vecellio and Grogan, Inc., working on highway project cutting four and on...
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Pay Loader with Pay Hauler

Date: 1972
Description: Elevated view of a man operating a Pay Loader to load a Pay Hauler with dirt. Vecellio and Grogan, Inc., working on highway project cutting four and one-ha...

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