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Resurfacing Roxboro Road

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Description: View toward seven men resurfacing a section of Roxboro Road. There is a steam roller in the foreground.
Photograph

Roxboro Road

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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.
Photograph

Resurfacing the Highway

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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.
Photograph

Road Construction

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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.
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

Street Construction at J. Ohlenforst Bakery

Date: 1906
Description: Traffic to the J. Ohlenforst Bakery at 529 S. Sixth Street, in the Walker's Point neighborhood, is impeded by street construction. There are piles of grave...
Photograph

Trucks Used in Road Construction

Date: 07 25 1925
Description: View from side of road looking down at a man using a dump truck for road construction. The truck is dumping material in front of a large machine. Men are w...
Photograph

Trucks Used in Road Construction

Date: 07 25 1925
Description: View from side of road of a line of trucks on a road. There is a large piece of machinery in the background where men are working. In the background is a c...
Photograph

Truck for Laying Asphalt

Date: 10 01 1928
Description: A man is standing at the front of a truck parked on a ramp. Further back on the right a group of men are working laying asphalt with large machinery. A gro...
Photograph

Affirmative Action

Date: 1976
Description: A woman and a man are working on a road construction crew, with a dump truck full of sand behind them. They are wearing work clothes and hard hats. In the ...

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