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| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | International Model G-61 truck parked on the side of a dirt road where several men spread gravel(?) for the Shenandoah Valley Pipe Company. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | International Model G-61 truck parked on the side of a dirt road where several men spread gravel(?) for the Shenandoah Valley Pipe Company. The trailor att... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A car with four men in business suits and hats is parked at the side of a road. The men are watching as an International Harvester tractor is pulling a roa... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | View of a chain gang from the front window of a car. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | men spread asphalt on a road using an International A tractor and Seaman asphalt mixer. Original caption reads: "An International A being used to haul a Se... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Man smoothing a road with a Meili-Blumberg (MB) Model 10 power grader attached to an International MD tractor. According to the original caption, the power... |
| 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: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of men use an International DR-60 dump truck to work on the New International Bridge Project. There is a car parked in the background. |
| 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two men doing road work with a Titan tractor hitched to a road grader. |
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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. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Large Mogul tractor pulling a grader along a dirt road. Two men ride in the tractor, while three others supervise from behind the tractor. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a Mogul 30-60 tractor pulling an elevating grader. Two men stand on the platform of the grader while a wagon follows alongside to collect the ... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Back cover of a booklet produced by the Grid-Iron Grip Company entitled: "The Tractor Traction Problem Solved: Just like a locomotive, It runs on its own."... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Lauson 15-30 special road-building tractor. The cover features a partial color illustration of two men using a La... |
| 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: | 06 1995 |
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| Description: | "An overpass over Hwy 41 is being built for Soo Road. The camera faces west with the Tom O'Connor farm in the distance." |
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