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Road Construction Worker

Date: 1959
Description: An employee of the Fox Valley Paving Company pulls the pin from the concrete form during work on Interstate Highway I-90 in Rock County.
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Hill Farms State Office Building

Date: 1962
Description: The Hill Farms State Office Building at Segoe Road under construction, seen from down the road, with a luxuriant growth of weeds in the foreground.
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Construction near McCormick Harvesting Co. Office in Chicago

Date: 1890
Description: Construction work in the streets outside the offices of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company located at 212 Market Street. Two horse-drawn wagons and s...
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Road Construction with TD-18 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1939
Description: A man operates a grader pulled by an International TD-18 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) as other men observe. Original caption reads: "Leaning wheel grader ...
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Bridge Construction

Date: 1949
Description: Construction crew pouring concrete by hand on a bridge on Highway 11 near Browntown.
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Building I-94 with Earthmover

Date: 10 1959
Description: Construction of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County using an earthmover manufactured by Allis Chalmers.
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Resurfacing Blue Mound Road

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Description: Resurfacing of Blue Mound Road (then State Highway 19), in Waukesha County. The dump truck is spreading an absorbent product. An old, faded state highway m...
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Horse-Drawn Road Grader

Date: 1920
Description: Advanced, horse-drawn road grader in action. Here, excess dirt moves up a conveyor belt and is dumped in a wagon next to the grader.
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Stockland Whippet Grader

Date: 07 14 1927
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with a Stockland Whippet grader attachment to smooth a rural road.
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Resurfacing Work on Interstate 90

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Description: A construction superintendent talks with two highway construction workers (one of whom is a woman), during a resurfacing operation on interstate highway I9...
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Air Hammer Road Work

Date: 11 06 1928
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...
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Racine Trolley

Date: 1891
Description: View across road construction towards a horse-drawn trolley on railroad tracks on Racine Street. Men and children are standing near piles of road building ...
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Grader in on Rural Road

Date: 11 11 1926
Description: Barto Speer operates a grader marked "Russell Motor Patrol No.3" on a rural road in Dallas County, Iowa. There is a large house and lawn in the background.
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Titan Type D Tractor and Elevating Road Grader

Date: 1911
Description: Titan type "D" tractor pulls an elevating road grader along a rural road. Alongside on the left a group of men are driving four or five wagons pulled by te...
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TD-24 — Road Building

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "TD-24 — Road Building." Where Taken: "MW." Information with photograph reads: "International TD-24 Tractor with B-E S-152 scraper putting in new ...
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Road Work

Date: 08 1994
Description: "Road work is in progress as a Hwy 28 overpass is being constructed over U.S. Hwy 41."
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TD-24 — Road Building

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "TD-24 — Road Building." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "TD-24 and B-E S-152 scoop are doing the final grading on a highway...
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Bridge Construction Site

Date: 1959
Description: International trucks parked near a bridge construction site.
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433 Pay Scrapers on Bridge Over Highway

Date: 1973
Description: Rear view of two 433 Pay Scrapers moving across a bridge. Shepherd Construction Company, Inc., has sub-contract for grading and drainage work on section of...
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Man Operating 433 Pay Scraper

Date: 1973
Description: Man operating 433 Pay Scraper. Shepherd Construction Company, Inc., has sub-contract for grading and drainage work on section of Georgia Route 333.

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