Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Paving the main street with concrete was an occasion that brought out a large part of the Clintonville community to watch. |
Date: | 06 14 1951 |
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Description: | Crushing gravel to surface STH 101 in Florence County. |
Date: | 09 21 1933 |
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Description: | Employees of Anderson & Sons, a Minneapolis construction company, surfacing and curing USH 53 in Douglas County. |
Date: | 07 25 1950 |
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Description: | Road crew applying a product known as RCS3 Bitumen, a particular type of asphalt, to seal the surface of STH 47 in Langlade County. |
Date: | 09 27 1933 |
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Description: | Excavation, both manual and machine powered, probably between Richland Center and Boaz on STH 14. |
Date: | 09 27 1933 |
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Description: | Cabins for employees of the Interstate Construction Company working near Richland Center and Boaz. Road construction sites were frequently far from accommo... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | These two signs located along the route of Wisconsin State Trunk Highway 15 and 16 indicate the presence of a culvert. Beginning in 1917 Wisconsin pioneer... |
Date: | 08 1912 |
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Description: | Two African American men unloading the cement chute during paving of Janesville Plank Road. |
Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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Description: | A patrolman, as local highway crewmen were known, filling a crack on State Highway 12 in Sauk County. |
Date: | 1926 |
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Description: | Road crew pulling a wooden, apparently homemade, road grader. It is a variation on the "Wisconsin Road Planer," a design perfected by the Highway Commissi... |
Date: | 10 20 1948 |
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Description: | Construction workers along State Highway 59 putting crack filler into a tar kettle for heating. |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | Highway Commission dump truck photographed outside the Heil Company factory in Milwaukee. The truck was a Nash four-wheel drive model with the body built ... |
Date: | 07 1923 |
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Description: | State Highway 19 in Jefferson County taken by the Portland Cement Company, probably to represent the modern concrete highway. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Road crew working on State Highway 11 (now 14) in Richland County. |
Date: | 01 1919 |
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Description: | View of the road crew at work on State Highway 11 (now 14) in Richland County. |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | Panoramic view of the section of State Highway 115 in Richland County known as Muscoda-Richland Center Road. Grading and improvement of this hilly section... |
Date: | 04 15 1941 |
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Description: | Impassible muddy conditions along State Highway 13 between Butternut and Glidden, with a truck of the Flambeau Freight Lines stuck up to its axles. |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Roadimprovements along the portion of US Highway 16 known as the La Crosse-West Salem Road. At the time, this road represented the ultimate in modern high... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Dump trucks and steam shovel of the S.P. Croft Company, a road contractor from Milwaukee, at work at an unidentified Wisconsin site. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | View of a road crew along State Highway 15 at work constructing a trench for a penetration type shoulder near Kaukauna. |
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