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| Date: | 09 23 1948 |
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| Description: | Interior of a low cost house being constructed for sale to veterans of World War II by builder Marshall Erdman. The project of four houses is being constru... |
| Date: | 10 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Madison Building and Construction Trades workers signing pledge cards to donate one day's pay (about $12) to Madison War Chest campaign. |
| Date: | 09 23 1948 |
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| Description: | A low-cost house being built on Midvale Boulevard in Sunset Village on Madison's West Side by builder Marshall Erdman. Erdman's project of four houses is f... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men work on what appears to be International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Construction site, probably at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). A large hole is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Construction site showing an additional to an International Harvester factory, probably the company's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. |
| Date: | 07 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Men pouring and smoothing cement on the construction site of the Ordnance Steel Foundry Company. The Foundry may have served as part of International Harve... |
| Date: | 08 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Five indigenous workers balance on timbers while building the framing for a roof on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New G... |
| Date: | 11 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Without nails, wire or rope, indigenous men build a large structure for an American hospital unit headed by Major Stanley Hollenbeck of Milwaukee, Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 08 12 1943 |
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| Description: | Three indigenous boys building a roof out of what appears to be palm fronds at Combat Team Headquarters on Kiriwina Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1943 |
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| Description: | An indigenous youth weaves roofing for military buildings on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men talking on a construction site, probably at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). A pile of bricks is in the foreground alon... |
| Date: | 10 27 1942 |
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| Description: | Stacks of lumber used in the construction of what is probably International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). The lumber is sitting on the gro... |
| Date: | 10 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Men are standin on scaffolding to work on the Boiler House at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. Another man is working on the ground besi... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Governor Lucius Fairchild of Wisconsin and an unidentified group visiting the still uncompleted national monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1869. Fair... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Construction on the new capitol building. A church is behind the construction. Plate 52 |
| Date: | 04 23 1942 |
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| Description: | Men from contractor J.H. Hunzinger & Co. work on construction of the "Micro-Westco, Inc. plant addition." The addition may be part of International Harvest... |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers from the 14th Infantry working among lumber in Panama. One man iswearing a hat and squatting on top of a pile of lumber while holding a hammer... |
| Date: | 05 16 1942 |
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| Description: | Men use a crane to work on the "Micro-Westco Addition" at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal. The text on the crane reads: "Universal; Exca... |
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