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Paving University Avenue
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Steam shovel loading a truck as part of road construction in front of Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue. There is a horse-drawn wagon passing by. Text on back of print reads: "Univ. Ave. Construction at Walnut St. — looking W. Steam Shovel loading truck. Collins Lumber Co. -2308."
August 22, 1929
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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Paving University Avenue
August 22, 1929
Steam shovel loading truck at 2300 University Avenue, Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue.
Road Construction Steam Shovel
1920
Road construction crew of the Nelson Weber Construction Company and steam shovel. This construction was photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Association.
Steam Shovel Excavation
August 28, 1929
Steam shovel operators excavate for the construction of the Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium boiler house at 1202 Northport Drive.
Quinn Construction Company Steam Shovel
October 3, 1928
Quinn Construction Company steam shovel excavating for the First Congregational Church, 1609 University Avenue. There is a house in the background.
Road Construction Crew
1920
Dump trucks and steam shovel of the S.P. Croft Company, a road contractor from Milwaukee, at work at an unidentified Wisconsin site.
Road Work on University Avenue
August 19, 1929
Workers lay pipe and repave University Avenue, looking east along the 2400 block.
