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Publication Information
| Date Created | 1930 |
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Physical Description
| Format | Image |
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| Dimensions | 16 x 11 cm |
Collection Information
| Source Collection | Wisconsin State Highway Commission road condition and construction photographs |
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| Call Number | PH 1517 |
Copyright Information
| Copyright Status | NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES |
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| Rights Holder | Wisconsin Historical Society |
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Four Wheel Drive Truck
Dump truck manufactured by the Four Wheel Drive Co. of Clintonville and owned by Shawano County. The truck is equipped for rolling and dressing unpaved roads. This image was used for publicity pu...
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 Planer
1926
Road crew pulling a wooden, apparently homemade, road grader. It is a variation on the "Wisconsin Road Planer," a design perfected by the Highway Commission from several types then in use. Plans ...
Road Patrol Maintenance
The function known as patrol maintenance is seen performed in St. Croix County along State Highway 12 by a four-horse team pulling a road grader.
Resurfacing Blue Mound Road
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 marker, the inverted triangle, can be seen ...
Highway Commission Truck
1921
Highway Commission dump truck photographed outside the Heil Company factory in Milwaukee. The truck was a Nash four-wheel drive model with the body built by the Heil Company.
