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| 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: | 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 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers toiling in the sun on the roadside, as a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As a program of the New Deal, it was provided to create j... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Section of the factory at a crossroads with road construction workers outside. Name of company visible on building. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south. A jeep sits in the middle of the construction zone. The storefronts are covered with quilts and blankets. |
| 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: | 06 29 1937 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 12 1938 |
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| Description: | A man uses an International dump truck to unload dirt in a wooded area between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee. |
| Date: | 10 01 1928 |
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| Description: | A man operating what appears to be a 10-20 Industrial tractor equipped with an Acme Road Roller(?) attachment. In the background a man is sitting in a vehi... |
| Date: | 08 1994 |
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| Description: | "Road work is in progress as a Hwy 28 overpass is being constructed over U.S. Hwy 41." |
| Date: | 1994 |
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| Description: | "Blacktop is being laid at this intersection in the Village of Theresa." |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View from street of men working on a Works Progress Administration project. A group of men are standing and holding a beam upright in a trench, with a chai... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a man operating a TD-25 on the side of a hill. There is a valley in the background. Vecellio and Grogan, Inc., workin... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men operating Pay Haulers and a Pay Loader at the top of a hill. Vecellio and Grogan, Inc., working on highway project cutting four and on... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Man operating Pay Loader to dump earth into a Pay Hauler. Vecellio and Grogan, Inc., working on highway project cutting four and one-half miles of Intersta... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man operating a Pay Loader to load a Pay Hauler with dirt. Vecellio and Grogan, Inc., working on highway project cutting four and one-ha... |
| Date: | 10 15 1928 |
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| Description: | View towards a truck being loaded with large pipe from a crane. A man is helping to position the large pipe onto the back of the truck. The sign painted on... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| 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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