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Railroad Bridge Construction

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Description: Railroad bridge construction at an unknown location somewhere on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad line. There is a church in the background on...
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Road Construction Steam Shovel

Date: 1920
Description: Road construction crew of the Nelson Weber Construction Company and steam shovel. This construction was photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Associati...
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Machinery at Prairie du Sac Dam

Date: 08 11 1910
Description: The first machinery at work sounding at the site for the power dam. Workmen are posing near the carriage-mounted equipment. A horse-drawn wagon is in the ...
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Residential Construction with Teams of Horses

Date: 08 18 1926
Description: Construction workers and early construction machinery being driven by horses in a residential neighborhood.
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Joys Building and Surrounding Construction

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Description: Elevated view of west side of N. Water Street between E. Buffalo and E. Chicago Streets, featuring the Joys Building, with a contruction area in foreground...
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Moore and Eldredge Construction Site

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: Elevated view of men and a team of four horses working among dump trucks, including an International Model 63, at a Moore and Eldredge construction site.
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Plankinton House

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of the street and construction site outside of the Plankinton House hotel and various storefronts. Along the street and sidewalks are horse-d...
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Crushing Rock for Road Resurfacing

Date: 1910
Description: A crew of men crushing rock for Senator James H. Stout's improved highway.
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Milwaukee Works Construction

Date: 05 18 1911
Description: A man uses a horse-drawn wagon to transport building materials on a construction site at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. Men are clearin...
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Machine Shop Building Site at Milwaukee Works

Date: 05 05 1911
Description: Elevated view of construction crew clearing land for a six-story machine shop at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory.
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Work Horses and Wagons at Construction Site

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view of several teams of work horses pulling Old Dominion wagons loaded with dirt at a rural construction site. There is a steam shovel working at...
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Men and Women at the Site for New Silo

Date: 1915
Description: Men and women at the construction site for new pit silo. One man is squatting at the edge of the pit near the derrick, while two women are standing behind ...
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Construction Work

Date: 06 15 1926
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor and a Monarch loader to do construction work, possibly irrigation, in a field. Pieces of pipe lie on the groun...
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Harrison Street Bridge

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Description: View from what appears to be a lumber yard of men posed standing on the newly constructed Harrison Street bridge that replaced one destroyed in the flood o...
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York Iron Works

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Description: Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace.
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York Iron Works

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Description: Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace.
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York Iron Works

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Description: York Iron Works, with a group of men posed standing in front of the construction of the blast furnace.
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Home Construction

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Description: Men posed demolishing one house and building another on the same property, possibly the R.P. Ravey property. Two boys and a girl are posed standing in the ...
Book or Pamphlet

Western Wheeled Scraper Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: Front cover featuring illustrations of wheeled scrapers, drag scrapers, railroad plows and road graders.
Postcard

Construction of the Fourth Capitol Tower

Date: 12 30 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of the construction of the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol building. The ironwork tower is in the center of what would become the rotu...

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