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Resurfacing the Highway

Date: 
Description: A view on men resurfacing rural sections of U.S. Highway, with machinery and a small train running alongside the road.
Photograph

Road Construction

Date: 
Description: View down a road being constructed in Havana, Cuba. Two men are standing and talking on the road, and other men working on the road in tharee distance.
Photograph

Mogul 8-16 Tractor with Road Grader

Date: 1915
Description: Man pulls a road grader with a Mogul 8-16 tractor.
Photograph

Mogul 45 H.P. Tractor Pulling Road Grader

Date: 1912
Description: Group of men standing with road grader pulled by a 45 h.p. Mogul tractor along a rural road.
Photograph

Men with Mogul Tractor and Road Grader

Date: 1912
Description: Large group of men standing or walking near a road grader pulled by a 45 h.p. Mogul tractor along a country road. One man is driving the tractor, and anoth...
Photograph

Mogul 8-16 Tractor and Road Grader

Date: 1915
Description: Mogul 8-16 tractor pulls a road grader along a grassy path. One man drives the tractor, and another man stands on the grader.
Photograph

Mogul Tractor along Dirt Road

Date: 1912
Description: Large Mogul tractor pulling a grader along a dirt road. Two men ride in the tractor, while three others supervise from behind the tractor.
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 ...
Photograph

Spreading Asphalt

Date: 1952
Description: View towards of men using an M-61 to spread asphalt at Wolters Air Force Base. A building, possibly a church or chapel, stands in the background along the ...
Photograph

Man Smoothing Dirt Road

Date: 02 15 1915
Description: A man wearing a suit and hat is standing on a wooden grader while driving two mules along a dirt road. Beside the road behind him are cows in a fenced-in f...
Photograph

Convict Laborers

Date: 1915
Description: A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand...
Drawing

Men Building a Plank Road

Date: 
Description: A pencil drawing of men building a road with wooden planks.
Photograph

Road Construction

Date: 1924
Description: Two men use a 15-30(?) tractor and a grader on a dirt road. In the background are numerous oil derricks and industrial buildings.
Photograph

International Tractor with Road Grader

Date: 05 06 1929
Description: Carl David uses an International Model 15-30 tractor owned by Eldorado Township, McDonough County to pull a road grader across an unfinished rural dirt roa...
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...
Photograph

Construction Supervisor

Date: 05 30 1949
Description: "Village board member, Fred Bandlow, supervised road construction on Wisconsin Street."
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...

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