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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the paving operation of Joseph D. Bonners, Inc., on St. Martins Road at Hales Corners. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of new wing under construction. A fence separates the wing from the road. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Workers and inspectors of a mechanized concrete pour somewhere in Milwaukee County. By 1920 Milwaukee was famous for its 18-foot wide concrete roads, the c... |
| 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: | 1906 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | A dump truck full of loose gravel is emptying its load onto a street. A leveler is following behind to redistribute the gravel evenly across the road. Ther... |
| Date: | 04 27 1987 |
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| Description: | A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather. |
| Date: | 10 1914 |
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| Description: | Buffalo Street construction, showing heating pipes being installed under the cut pavement. A boy is bent over in near a pile of dirt in the background look... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of early construction at the Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee, the junction of Interstate Highways I94 and I43. Construction began in 1964, ... |
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| Description: | Incompleted overpass highway above a parking lot in Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | Rainwater running through a ditch along the side of a paved road. This picture was likely taken as a study of the drainage problems in Greendale. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The northwest corner of the Robert A. Johnston Company cookie factory at S. 1st and W. Florida Streets. |
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| Description: | A grader manufactured by The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. sits in a lot. Trucks and equipment are parked in the background near industrial buildings an... |
| Date: | 08 18 1926 |
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| Description: | Construction workers and early construction machinery being driven by horses in a residential neighborhood. |
| Date: | 03 09 1965 |
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| Description: | Aerial view and illustration of projected projects, including interstates and interchanges in downtown Milwaukee, for the 1970's. |
| Date: | 10 1914 |
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| Description: | Buffalo Street construction showing cuts in the pavement and the inconvenience for traffic. Standing between the excavated holes and piles of dirt is a hor... |
| 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: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee streets department employees repair the intersection of Meinecke Avenue and 12th Street. Behind them, a Blatz truck is making a delivery to the ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | An 1876 reprinted map of the Township of Franklin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, that shows the land ownership and sectioning of the town, as well as the ro... |
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