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| 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: | 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: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Interstate construction at the Colley Road and I-90 overpass in Rock County. The contractor is Shappert Engineering Company. |
| 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: | 1985 |
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| Description: | View from an overpass of a resurfacing operation on I90/94 near Madison. |
| Date: | 09 22 1933 |
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| Description: | Paving operation on the section of State Highway 139 in Lafayette County locally known as the Platteville-Belmont Road. |
| 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: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Construction of the Badger Interchange of I-90 and I-94. |
| 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: | 1959 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Construction crew pouring concrete by hand on a bridge on Highway 11 near Browntown. |
| Date: | 10 1959 |
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| Description: | Construction of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County using an earthmover manufactured by Allis Chalmers. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Pouring concrete for footings on the Bass Creek Bridge on County Highway D in Rock County. The contractor is Luety Brothers. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the construction of the interstate highway near Mirror Lake, showing only the early stages of the bridge construction. |
| 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: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View down a wooden sidewalk, next to a dirt road. Some piles of wood are in the road near a portion of the sidewalk that is under construction. |
| Date: | 11 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the interstate highway bridge construction at Mirror Lake showing the concrete footings halfway down the embankment. |
| Date: | 06 28 1960 |
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| Description: | Concrete paving operation near the intersection of I-90 and U.S. Highway 12 in Sauk County. Traffic flows along the old highway to the right of the new co... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | View taken from below of the Interstate Highway I-535 bridge during construction. |
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