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Four Lakes District Plan

Date: 1910
Description: Map of the general plan of the district of the Four Lakes.
Photograph

Interstate Highway Bridge Construction

Date: 1960
Description: Excavation for bridge column footings for the Mirror Lake Bridge.
Photograph

Mirror Lake Bridge Construction

Date: 1960
Description: Aerial view of the construction of the interstate highway near Mirror Lake, showing only the early stages of the bridge construction.
Photograph

Mirror Lake Bridge Construction

Date: 11 16 1960
Description: Elevated view of the interstate highway bridge construction at Mirror Lake showing the concrete footings halfway down the embankment.
Photograph

Supports of Appleton Tri-County Bridge

Date: 06 30 1992
Description: View from below of the Fox River Bridge. Gordon Neitzke who photographed the Fox River Bridge for the Wisconsin Department of Highways, found an almost cat...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin and Lake Michigan Map

Date: 1909
Description: [Lithography] by Poole Bros. Contains descriptive information. Short jaunts for busy people to nearby resorts in Illinois and Wisconsin.
Photograph

Road Repairs Crew with D-40 Truck

Date: 06 29 1937
Description: An International D-40 truck used by the Brennan Paving Company is parked in a paved lot in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, while a group of men work in the...
Photograph

Natchez Trace Parkway

Date: 09 12 1938
Description: A man uses an International dump truck to unload dirt in a wooded area between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee.
Photograph

Rainwater Running through Ditch

Date: 
Description: Rainwater running through a ditch along the side of a paved road. This picture was likely taken as a study of the drainage problems in Greendale.
Photograph

North Shore Drive

Date: 09 04 1953
Description: North Shore Drive (formerly Law Parkway) is open to traffic all the way from East Wilson Street to Proudfit Street, Brittingham Park Drive and West Washing...
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 ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin and Illinois

Date: 1941
Description: A map of the area south of Ripon and Sheboygan and east of Waterloo and Janesville, showing the route of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad in...
Print

Building Intercounty Bridge

Date: 1931
Description: Page from an advertising brochure for International trucks. International trucks are used during the construction of an inter-county bridge between Columbi...
Photograph

International Model A-8 Dump Truck

Date: 1931
Description: An International Model A-8 dump truck works on the Grand Coulee Dam construction site.
Photograph

International Trucks on Heavy-Duty Job

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of International trucks as they perform heavy-duty jobs while working near the Bonneville Dam.
Map or Atlas

Map of Franklin Township, Wisconsin

Date: 1976
Description: An 1876 reprinted map of the Township of Franklin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, that shows the land ownership and sectioning of the town, as well as the ro...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland County & Part Bayfield County, Wisconsin, Showing Wisconsin Central Rail Road Lands Corrected

Date: 1896
Description: This 1896 map shows the township and range system, sections, cities and villages, railroads, roads, vacant land and land sold by the Wisconsin Central Rail...
Photograph

Men Operating 295b Pay Scrapers

Date: 11 12 1971
Description: Elevated view of men operating 295b Pay Scrapers and other construction equipment. Black Rock Contracting, Inc., has contract to construct 3.26 miles of In...
Photograph

Industrial Tractor for Street Construction

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: A man is operating an industrial tractor, which has a shovel on the front for moving earth. Men are in the background standing near a pile of sandbags. Tal...
Photograph

TD-18 — Road Building

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "TD-18 — Road Building." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "TD-18 owned by W.H. Hinman Co., Wicasset, Maine. Used with Bucyrus...

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