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Photograph

Paving North Main Street

Date: 1901
Description: A crew of construction workers paving North Main Street with brick.
Print

Marshall's Rut Leveler and Snow-Plow Advertisment

Date: 1874
Description: Advertisement for Calvin Marshall's Patent Rut Leveler and Snow-Plow or Road Breaker.
Poster

International Crawler Tractor Poster

Date: 1937
Description: Advertising poster for International crawler tractors (TracTracTors), featuring the TD-35. Includes illustrations of workers using crawler tractors in road...
Poster

International Industrial Power Advertising Poster

Date: 1938
Description: Advertising poster for International "industrial power" equipment, including trucks and crawler tractors (TracTracTors). Includes color illustrations of In...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Print

International TD-6 Diesel TracTractor Brochure (Spanish)

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for TD-6 TracTracTors (crawler tractors). Features photographs of crawler tractors pulling a road grader and a disk harrow...
Print

Russell Road Roller

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Russell Road Roller. The cover features an illustration of the machinery at work along a rural road and text that ...
Print

Tractor with Grid-Iron Grips

Date: 1920
Description: Back cover of a booklet produced by the Grid-Iron Grip Company entitled: "The Tractor Traction Problem Solved: Just like a locomotive, It runs on its own."...
Book or Pamphlet

Lauson 15-30 Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Lauson 15-30 special road-building tractor. The cover features a partial color illustration of two men using a La...
Print

Highway Power

Date: 1925
Description: Bulletin advertising Pioneer tractors for construction and maintenance of highways. Features two photographs of men using the tractors; the caption beneath...
Print

Whitney Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Advertisement for the Whitney tractor featuring a side view illustration of the machine at top center with a caption reading: "Tested under the most trying...
Print

International Trucks Alaska Highway Ad

Date: 1943
Description: Advertisement for International trucks featuring a color illustration of men working with an excavator and an International dump truck on the Alcan Highway...
Book or Pamphlet

Road Building with Cletrac Tractors

Date: 1921
Description: Front and back cover of a pamphlet advertising Cletrac tank-type tractors featuring a photograph of a man using a Cletrac crawler tractor to haul a wagon. ...
Print

Building Pennsylvania Highways

Date: 1931
Description: Page from an advertising brochure for International trucks. Two International trucks owned by the Ritter Bros. are parked on a highway construction site wh...
Print

Lincoln Highway Construction

Date: 1931
Description: Page from an advertising brochure for International trucks. International trucks are used on a construction site during the building of the George Westingh...
Print

Master Drive Road Builder

Date: 1920
Description: Color illustration of the Illinois Super-Drive tractor appearing beneath the heading,:"The Master Drive Road Builder of America. Special Road Building Mode...
Book or Pamphlet

Road Building the Best Way

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the C.L. Best Tractor Company's line of road building equipment, illustrated by a man using a crawler tractor on a ro...
Book or Pamphlet

Caterpillar for Road Work and Hauling

Date: 1915
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the "Caterpillar for Road Work and Hauling." The photograph on the cover depicts a man behind the wheel of a Caterpill...
Book or Pamphlet

Caterpillar Tractors for Moving Dirt with Elevating Graders

Date: 1921
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising Caterpillar tractors for moving dirt with elevating graders.

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