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Panoramic View of East Side of Monona Avenue

Date: 03 27 1931
Description: Panoramic elevated view of the east side of Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,) showing Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. road construction e...
Photograph

Road Equipment

Date: 01 29 1931
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, on display at Wisconsin Road ...
Photograph

Road Equipment Exhibit

Date: 01 29 1931
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Machine and Foundry road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, on display at Road Show on Monona...
Photograph

Road Equipment

Date: 01 29 1931
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Company road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, on display at the Wiscons...
Photograph

Road Equipment Exhibit

Date: 02 01 1929
Description: Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Company road equipment exhibit, showing Badger double drum hoist exhibited on Monona Avenue, with Woolworth's and Garrick Theat...
Photograph

Commercial Building

Date: 
Description: Two-story wood frame building with an awning over the front right entrance. Smaller buildings are on the right along the dirt road.
Photograph

Road Work with Adams #5 1/2 Road Grader

Date: 1949
Description: Men using an Adams #5 1/2 Road Grader to work on an urban street. The grader was owned by the State Paving and Construction Co. Original caption states: "G...
Photograph

Philadelphia Road Work with #3/2 Adams Motor Grader

Date: 1949
Description: Men using a Number 3/2 Adams Motor Grader for road construction on Pine Street in Philadelphia. A laundry store is on the corner.
Photograph

Buffalo Street Construction

Date: 10 1914
Description: Buffalo Street construction showing cuts in the pavement and the inconvenience for traffic. Standing between the excavated holes and piles of dirt is a hor...
Photograph

Mission Supply Company

Date: 1912
Description: View down a town street featuring Mission Supply Company. Children sit outside the store on the front step.
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...
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 ...
Book or Pamphlet

Yuba Rodebilder Booklet

Date: 1926
Description: Front cover to the Yuba Bulletin-Catalog advertising the Yuba Rodebilder. The text reads: "For Building Roads and Moving Loads."
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...
Print

Whitney Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Advertisement for the Whitney tractor featuring a side view illustration of the machine at top center with a caption reading: "Tested under the most trying...
Print

Yuba Rodebilder

Date: 1926
Description: Advertisement for the Yuba Rodebilder featuring a side view photograph and a listing of the machinery's specifications at right and a paragraph of descript...
Print

International Trucks Alaska Highway Ad

Date: 1943
Description: Advertisement for International trucks featuring a color illustration of men working with an excavator and an International dump truck on the Alcan Highway...
Book or Pamphlet

Road Building with Cletrac Tractors

Date: 1921
Description: Front and back cover of a pamphlet advertising Cletrac tank-type tractors featuring a photograph of a man using a Cletrac crawler tractor to haul a wagon. ...
Book or Pamphlet

Bates Steel Mule Tractors

Date: 1929
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Bates Steel Mule tractors featuring an illustration of two men using a crawler tractor and road grader on a road. Bate...

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