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| 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... |
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| Description: | The function known as patrol maintenance is seen performed in St. Croix County along State Highway 12 by a four-horse team pulling a road grader. |
| 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: | 05 20 1992 |
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| Description: | A concrete finisher stretches to trowel off a spot during construction of the Appleton Tri-County Bridge over the Fox River. |
| Date: | 06 09 1992 |
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| Description: | Close-up of rebar work on the Tri-County Fox River Bridge at Appleton, with cement finishing equipment. |
| Date: | 06 11 1992 |
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| Description: | Employees of Lunda Concrete pour the last section of the Tri-County Fox River Bridge deck. |
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| Description: | Dump truck manufactured by the Four Wheel Drive Co. of Clintonville and owned by Shawano County. The truck is equipped for rolling and dressing unpaved ro... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Blacktopping a new Madison residential street. Construction of the ranch-style houses in the background is almost complete. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Paving Watertown's main street with bricks, with almost as many men who are watching as construction workers. |
| 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: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A construction crew blacktopping a Madison residential street. |
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