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Alabama Road Work

Date: 05 1902
Description: Group portrait of four men and two boys standing with horses, oxen and mules hitched up to drag scrapers, to reconstruct a dirt road. A small building, pow...
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Alabama Road Construction

Date: 05 1902
Description: Group portrait, with Ernst Goetsch standing on a dirt road next to a team of oxen hitched up to a drag scraper on the left, and a team of oxen on the right...
Postcard

Street Construction at J. Ohlenforst Bakery

Date: 1906
Description: Traffic to the J. Ohlenforst Bakery at 529 S. Sixth Street, in the Walker's Point neighborhood, is impeded by street construction. There are piles of grave...
Postcard

A Neighborhood Gathering

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of neighborhood children and adults gathered on a street in the S. Sixth Street neighborhood of Walker's Point that is being re-paved. Many ...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin-Madison Ladies' Hall

Date: 1900
Description: A southeast view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Ladies' Hall. In the foreground two men are working in the road among piles of dirt and rock.
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Southeast Corner of the University of Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: A southwest corner view of the University of Wisconsin campus, from University Avenue just east of Park Street. A group of men are working in the road amon...
Photograph

Three Men Sitting on a Road Grader

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Description: View down middle of unpaved road towards three men sitting on the back of a road grader in a rural area. Two of the men are wearing suits and hats, and the...
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

Road Construction in front of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Office

Date: 1900
Description: View of street being constructed outside the dealership office of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. on 212 Market Street. Stacks of cobblestones are in ...
Photograph

Photographer's Silhouette on Unidentified Street

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Description: Perspective view of an unidentified street paved with gravel, with the photographer's silhouette. There is a house on a hill on the right, and more houses ...
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Tractor for Road Construction

Date: 04 24 1908
Description: Men using a tractor for road construction.
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Road Construction

Date: 06 11 1909
Description: Group of men working on a road with a large tractor. There is a bridge in the background.
Photograph

Six-Wheeler on W.P.A. Project

Date: 1939
Description: View from street of men working on a Works Progress Administration project. A group of men are standing and holding a beam upright in a trench, with a chai...
Photograph

Six-Wheeler on W.P.A. Project

Date: 1939
Description: View across street towards men working on a Works Progress Administration project. Three men are standing and holding a board with a chain attached to it n...
Photograph

Man Using Austin Motor Grader

Date: 06 16 1926
Description: View of a man using an Austin Motor Grader on a road. There are houses in the background.
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Road Work Near Red Dot

Date: 
Description: Workers doing road work near the Red Dot factory, in the background, on East Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Man Operating TD-25

Date: 1972
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man operating a TD-25 behind a Pay Scraper. Caledonia, Inc., has contract to construct a section of Interstate I-91.
Photograph

Man Operating TD-25

Date: 1972
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man operating a TD-25 on the side of a hill. There is a valley in the background. Vecellio and Grogan, Inc., workin...
Photograph

Men Operating Pay Haulers and Pay Loader

Date: 1972
Description: Elevated view of men operating Pay Haulers and a Pay Loader at the top of a hill. Vecellio and Grogan, Inc., working on highway project cutting four and on...
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Pay Loader with Pay Hauler

Date: 1972
Description: Man operating Pay Loader to dump earth into a Pay Hauler. Vecellio and Grogan, Inc., working on highway project cutting four and one-half miles of Intersta...

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