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Construction Equipment on Display

Date: 01 29 1931
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, being displayed at the Wiscon...
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Road Work on University Avenue

Date: 08 19 1929
Description: Workers lay pipe and repave University Avenue, looking east along the 2400 block.
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Road Equipment Exhibit

Date: 02 01 1929
Description: A crushing machine is displayed as part of a Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Company road equipment exhibit on Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Blvd.).
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Stone Crushing Plant

Date: 10 20 1928
Description: Elevated view of the stone crushing plant of the Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Company on Highway 27 near Soldiers Grove, showing a truck being filled with...
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Road Construction

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Description: Road construction just north of the Crawford-Vernon County line on State Highway 27, showing both the new and old routes. According to the caption on the ...
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Road Construction Steam Shovel

Date: 1920
Description: Road construction crew of the Nelson Weber Construction Company and steam shovel. This construction was photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Associati...
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Road Maintenance

Date: 01 13 1938
Description: Adams road grader equipped with a McCormick-Deering power unit on a rural road. A county road maintenance crew is using the grader near the border between ...
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Road Construction

Date: 01 13 1938
Description: An Adams road grader equipped with a McCormick-Deering power unit is used by a county road crew to smooth a road in a rural area near the Ohio and Indiana ...
Photograph

Titan Tractor and Road Grader

Date: 1912
Description: Two men doing road work with a Titan tractor hitched to a road grader.
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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.
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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.
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Mogul 45 H.P. Tractor Pulling Road Grader

Date: 1912
Description: Group of men standing with road grader pulled by a 45 h.p. Mogul tractor along a rural road.
Print

Old Abe Agricultural Advertising Cards

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Description: The eagle "Old Abe" was used for many years by J.I. Case Company, of Racine, Wisconsin, as the firm's trademark, and is shown on these advertising cards is...
Book or Pamphlet

Bates Steel Mule Tractors

Date: 1929
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Bates Steel Mule tractors featuring an illustration of two men using a crawler tractor and road grader on a road. Bate...
Photograph

Tractor for Road Construction

Date: 04 24 1908
Description: Men using a tractor for road construction.
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Man on Tractor Pulling Road Leveler

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: Rear view down road towards a man on a tractor pulling a road leveler.
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Man Driving Industrial Tractor Pulling Road Construction Equipment

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man driving an industrial tractor pulling road construction equipment.
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Man Driving Industrial Tractor Pulling Road Grader

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man driving an industrial tractor pulling a road grader. In the background is a field, and farm buildings and large...
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Man Operating Grader

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: View down unpaved road towards a man operating a grader. In the background is a large house with a front porch and a turret.
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Man Operating Russel Motor Patrol No. 3 Grader

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: Right side profile view of a man using a grader on an unpaved road.

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