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| Date: | 09 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Dedication of Wisconsin's first expressway, a seven-mile stretch of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Presiding at the ribbon-cutting ... |
| Date: | 04 26 1937 |
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| Description: | Two Lafayette County tar tank trucks park in front of Max Lehman's house, 1724 Park Street. |
| Date: | 03 27 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 29 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, on display at Wisconsin Road ... |
| Date: | 01 29 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Company road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, on display at the Wiscons... |
| Date: | 08 19 1929 |
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| Description: | Workers lay pipe and repave University Avenue, looking east along the 2400 block. |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Steam shovel loading a truck as part of road construction in front of Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue. There is a horse-drawn wagon passing by. ... |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Steam shovel loading truck at 2300 University Avenue, Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 02 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Company road equipment exhibit, showing the right side of the crusher, with Hotel Monona, at 114 Monona Avenue in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 02 01 1929 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Company road equipment display of a Badger one-piece crushing screening plant. The equipment is displayed on Monona Avenue. S... |
| Date: | 02 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Company road equipment exhibit, showing Badger double drum hoist exhibited on Monona Avenue, with Woolworth's and Garrick Theat... |
| Date: | 02 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Company road equipment exhibit showing Badger portable sand gravel bins and pit-hoppers exhibited on Monona Avenue. The Garrick... |
| Date: | 01 25 1929 |
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| Description: | A tank truck that sprays road oil is parked in front of Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Company, located at 613-629 East Main Street. |
| Date: | 11 06 1928 |
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| Description: | A worker is using an air hammer with compressor truck to do work on the road in the 800 block of University Avenue, looking west. Wisconsin Foundry & Machi... |
| Date: | 07 1968 |
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| Description: | Interstate Highway I-90 sign erected to point out to motorists the use of tax dollars in highway improvements. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The northwest corner of the Robert A. Johnston Company cookie factory at S. 1st and W. Florida Streets. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | View of a "Road Closed" sign with a sticker on it that reads, "Procaccino / Beame * Smith." |
| Date: | 10 22 1923 |
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| Description: | Two International Model 63 trucks operated by Carlon Construction Co. of Maplewood, Missouri. Printing on the side of the truck says "Paving Contractors." ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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. |
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