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| Date: | 08 12 1924 |
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| Description: | Crew of African American workmen paving a city street behind an International heavy-duty truck. |
| Date: | 06 16 1926 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | Five men are standing with a McCormick-Deering crawler tractor (TracTracTor) during a construction project. |
| Date: | 08 19 1929 |
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| Description: | Workers lay pipe and repave University Avenue, looking east along the 2400 block. |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| 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. ... |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Steam shovel loading truck at 2300 University Avenue, Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 11 06 1928 |
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| Description: | Man with jackhammer making street repairs with an air hammer with compressor. Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Co. Saunders Grocery store is across the street a... |
| Date: | 11 06 1928 |
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| Description: | Man with air hammer working on a road near a parked truck. |
| Date: | 11 06 1928 |
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| Description: | A worker is using an air hammer with compressor truck to do work on the road in the 800 block of University Avenue, looking west. Wisconsin Foundry & Machi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Road construction crew of the Nelson Weber Construction Company and steam shovel. This construction was photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Associati... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | International Model G-61 truck parked on the side of a dirt road where several men spread gravel(?) for the Shenandoah Valley Pipe Company. |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | International truck operated by the Weaver Construction Company of Iowa. Men are using the truck and a crane for road work. |
| Date: | 11 18 1926 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a road surrounded by two International Model 63 trucks and a Gilbert road grader machine operated by the M.O. Weaver Construction Co. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men use mule-led wagons while working on a residential road. Bricks are piled high on either side of the street. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 10 22 1923 |
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| Description: | Two International Model 63 trucks operated by Carlon Construction Co. of Maplewood, Missouri. Printing on the side of the truck says "Paving Contractors." ... |
| Date: | 07 20 1929 |
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| Description: | Emil Anderson operates a road grader marked "Russell Motor Patrol No.3" on Highway 12. |
| Date: | 07 20 1927 |
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| Description: | Emil Anderson operating a road grader marked "Russell Motor Patrol No.3" on Highway 12. |
| Date: | 07 14 1927 |
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| Description: | A man uses a Gilbert road grader with a twenty foot blade to work on the Yellowstone Trail. |
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