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Construction near McCormick Harvesting Co. Office in Chicago

Date: 1890
Description: Construction work in the streets outside the offices of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company located at 212 Market Street. Two horse-drawn wagons and s...
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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Spreading Gravel

Date: 1900
Description: Two men spreading gravel from a horse-drawn dump wagon onto a road. The wagon was manufactured by Road Machine Co.
Photograph

Residential Street Maintenance

Date: 1920
Description: Men use mule-led wagons while working on a residential road. Bricks are piled high on either side of the street.
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Residential Street Maintenance

Date: 1920
Description: Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground.
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Building a Wood Block Road

Date: 1903
Description: Men working on a wood block road.
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Greasing Wagon with International Tractor

Date: 1944
Description: A man uses an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) to pull a greasing wagon across rough terrain. A dirt road and hills are in the background.
Photograph

Tractor Pulling Elevating Road Grader

Date: 1914
Description: Rear view of a Mogul 30-60 tractor pulling an elevating grader. Two men stand on the platform of the grader while a wagon follows alongside to collect the ...
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. ...
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

Industrial Tractors at Road Construction Site

Date: 08 08 1927
Description: View towards a long line of men sitting on industrial tractors, each pulling a wagon, at a road construction site.
Photograph

Industrial Tractors

Date: 08 08 1927
Description: View towards a man sitting on an industrial tractor, which is pulling a wagon. On the right another man is standing and operating a Russell Elevating Grade...
Photograph

Industrial Tractors at Road Construction Site

Date: 08 08 1927
Description: View across tire tracks in the dirt towards a group of men driving industrial tractor pulling wagons at a road construction site.
Photograph

Industrial Tractors at Road Construction Site

Date: 08 08 1927
Description: View towards a long line of men sitting on industrial tractors at a road construction site. Behind the tractors a man is standing and operating a Russell E...
Photograph

Industrial Tractors at Road Construction Site

Date: 08 08 1927
Description: View towards a long line of industrial tractors at a road construction site. The tractors are hitched to wagons.
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Improving Bad Serbia Roads

Date: 
Description: Soldiers attempting to repair badly damaged Serbian roads.

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