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Workers at Mirror Lake Bridge Construction

Date: 1960
Description: View from below looking up towards workers constructing and reinforcing the forms for the footings of the interstate highway bridge at Mirror Lake.
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Welder

Date: 08 05 1960
Description: A construction worker welds steel to reinforce the concrete columns for the interstate highway near Timme Mill Bridge.
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Interstate Paving

Date: 10 24 1960
Description: One construction worker guides the bucket while others prepare to spread the concrete during construction of the interstate highway near Timme Mill Road.
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Interstate Concrete Pour

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Description: Concrete pour during the construction of an unidentified Wisconsin highway. The crew for this job includes a woman.
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Roadbuilding Equipment on Interstate 90

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Description: Road construction workers at an unidentified location on I90 & I94 operate a construction machine that combines several steps of the concrete pour process....
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Resurfacing Work on Interstate 90

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Description: A construction superintendent talks with two highway construction workers (one of whom is a woman), during a resurfacing operation on interstate highway I9...
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Concrete Pour at Clintonville

Date: 1914
Description: Paving the main street with concrete was an occasion that brought out a large part of the Clintonville community to watch.
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Gravel Road Surface

Date: 06 14 1951
Description: Crushing gravel to surface STH 101 in Florence County.
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Highway Excavation

Date: 09 27 1933
Description: Excavation, both manual and machine powered, probably between Richland Center and Boaz on STH 14.
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Calcium Chloride Surfacing

Date: 1925
Description: Applying calcium chloride to the surface of STH 19 in Dane County. Unpaved roads stabilized with calcium chloride produced less dust, although that type o...
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African American Road Crew

Date: 08 1912
Description: Two African American men unloading the cement chute during paving of Janesville Plank Road.
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Patrolman Sealing a Crack

Date: 10 13 1948
Description: A patrolman, as local highway crewmen were known, filling a crack on State Highway 12 in Sauk County.
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Road Planer

Date: 1926
Description: Road crew pulling a wooden, apparently homemade, road grader. It is a variation on the "Wisconsin Road Planer," a design perfected by the Highway Commissi...
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Road Crew

Date: 10 20 1948
Description: Construction workers along State Highway 59 putting crack filler into a tar kettle for heating.
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Road Crew

Date: 1919
Description: Road crew working on State Highway 11 (now 14) in Richland County.
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Road Crew

Date: 01 1919
Description: View of the road crew at work on State Highway 11 (now 14) in Richland County.
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Road Construction Crew

Date: 1920
Description: Dump trucks and steam shovel of the S.P. Croft Company, a road contractor from Milwaukee, at work at an unidentified Wisconsin site.
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Rocky Shoulder on Highway 51

Date: 1925
Description: View of a road crew along State Highway 15 at work constructing a trench for a penetration type shoulder near Kaukauna.
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Kaukauna Section Patrol

Date: 1925
Description: A Kewaunee County road crew poses in front of gravel crushing machinery.
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Road Paving Crew

Date: 1918
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.

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