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Wausau Street

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Description: Town Line Road in Wausau, showing the Weltman Brothers furniture store and, in the background, a Kraft Foods building. Some road work appears underway in ...
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Road Construction Crew

Date: 1920
Description: Dump trucks and steam shovel of the S.P. Croft Company, a road contractor from Milwaukee, at work at an unidentified Wisconsin site.
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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 Roxboro Road

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Description: View toward seven men resurfacing a section of Roxboro Road. There is a steam roller in the foreground.
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Gravel Road Surface

Date: 06 14 1951
Description: Crushing gravel to surface STH 101 in Florence County.
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Kewaunee County Road Crew

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Description: Kewaunee County road crew.
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Dirt Road and Industrial Buildings

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Description: View down a flat, countryside dirt road, and a sulfur factory plant in the distance.
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Road Construction

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Description: View down a road being constructed in Havana, Cuba. Two men are standing and talking on the road, and other men working on the road in tharee distance.
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Brodhead Cheese Factory

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Description: Brodhead Cheese Factory taken from a nearby road, with a truck in front of the building.
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Field of Petroleum Derricks

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Description: Next to a billboard, a road cuts through a field of petroleum derricks.
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Esterly Harvesting Machine Company

Date: 1890
Description: Esterly Harvesting Machine Company across a snowy road.
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Norton Grinding Company

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Description: The New Bond Street Section of the Norton Grinding Company showing brick buildings, a road and fenced areas.
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Aerial View of Road Paving

Date: 1935
Description: Aerial view of the paving operation of Joseph D. Bonners, Inc., on St. Martins Road at Hales Corners.
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South Pierce Street

Date: 1910
Description: Light factory district. The street is 44 feet between curbs, with vitrified brick pavement. Telephone poles line the road.
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Highway 139 Paving

Date: 09 22 1933
Description: Paving operation on the section of State Highway 139 in Lafayette County locally known as the Platteville-Belmont Road.
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Hoffman's Feed Mill

Date: 1904
Description: Exterior view across unpaved road towards a three-story building with a loading dock in front. Many of the windows are open. Caption reads: "Hoffmans feed ...
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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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Factory

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Description: View down road toward two horses hitched to a wagon on a road in front of a factory and other buildings.
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Interstate Resurfacing

Date: 1985
Description: View from an overpass of a resurfacing operation on I90/94 near Madison.
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Street Scene

Date: 1920
Description: Street scene featuring a gas station and cafe along a dirt road.

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