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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Men working around an International pickup truck parked at a construction site. The truck, possibly a B-120 or B-130, was owned by Carson Contractors. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank. |
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| Description: | Team of horses powering a winch and moving a frame building. Before the flood of 1911, moving the Express building from the northeast corner of Main and Se... |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th... |
| Date: | 07 11 1926 |
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| Description: | A shovel, or excavator loads dirt into an International Model S truck. The text on the wooden cab of the shovel appears to read: "Marion Shovel - Model 21"... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View across parking lot of Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The gymnasium annex in course of demolition. There ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A crew of men laying sewer pipe with a Hough payloader. Original caption states: "Hough Payloader laying sewer pipe sections weighing 200 lbs each. Equipme... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A crew of men crushing rock for Senator James H. Stout's improved highway. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Construction crew raising a brick building. The structure is entirely surrounded by scaffolding. A large stone piece is being hoisted into place while a wo... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Men work to level the ground for foundations to be poured for homes. Exposed brick walls of partially constructed homes are on the left and right, and a di... |
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| Description: | A group of manual laborers posing for a portrait in front of a tailor's shop. The men apparently work pouring concrete to make sidewalks and are posing wit... |
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| Description: | View of the process of building a levee, including many horses and people. Caption reads: "Building the Levee near Port Gibson, Miss." |
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| Description: | View toward seven men resurfacing a section of Roxboro Road. There is a steam roller in the foreground. |
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| Description: | A view of men grating the new surface of Roxboro Road, a section of the U.S. Highway. In the background is a steamroller. |
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| Description: | A view on men resurfacing rural sections of U.S. Highway, with machinery and a small train running alongside the road. |
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| Description: | View down a road being constructed in Havana, Cuba. Two men are standing and talking on the road, and other men working on the road in tharee distance. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a crane lifting machinery to workers at the top of the bridge during construction. Words on the crane reads, "Stevens Brothers and S... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The entrance to the bridge during construction. A worker works on the side of the bridge on the right. Other workers in the middle of the bridge lay boards... |
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