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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of a road crew along State Highway 15 at work constructing a trench for a penetration type shoulder near Kaukauna. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A Kewaunee County road crew poses in front of gravel crushing machinery. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Road construction crew at work on the Chicago-St. Francis Road in Milwaukee County. This road was constructed with bulk cement using an integral curb. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Patrolman leveling the surface of State Highway 33 in the town of Excelsior in Sauk County using a team of horses and a wooden grader. Patrolmen were inst... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Improved road paving equipment shown in an unidentified photograph. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | This photograph from the Wisconsin Highway Commission records is unidentified, but a few internal details helps to understand the content. The Wisconsin li... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A state highway patrolman at work on a dirt road somewhere in Eau Claire County demonstrates how the grader was adjusted for sloped shoulders. At the time... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cutting a Subgrade is the original caption of this photograph which shows a dump truck manufactured by the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville pulling... |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | A cement finisher corrects surface imperfections left by the mechanical finisher during a resurfacing project on I90/94. |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | As part of a construction job on one of Wisconsin's interstate highways, concrete travels down a series of chutes from the cement mixer to the pour site. |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | View from an overpass of a resurfacing operation on I90/94 near Madison. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | This image which was probably taken for publicity purposes by the company, shows a J.I. Case Model L tractor pulling a Galion E-Z Lift road grader. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A Galion E-Z Lift road grader pulled by a Case Model L tractor, allowing a close-up view of the grading machinery. |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | Concrete pour on Wisconsin Interstate Highway I-90/94, showing the operation of the concrete smoothing equipment. |
| Date: | 05 1972 |
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| Description: | A crew from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation examines the condition of the underside of a concrete overpass. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee streets department employees repair the intersection of Meinecke Avenue and 12th Street. Behind them, a Blatz truck is making a delivery to the ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Washington County highway worker filling a Kissel-built truck with gravel and crushed rock. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Kissel truck owned by Washington County entering a gravel pit. |
| Date: | 07 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers toiling in the sun on the roadside, as a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As a program of the New Deal, it was provided to create j... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background. |
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