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Publication Information
Physical Description
| Format | Image |
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| Dimensions | 13 x 7 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 | COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED |
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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.
Cutting a Subgrade
1930
Cutting a Subgrade is the original caption of this photograph which shows a dump truck manufactured by the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville pulling a road grader.
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 ...
Bad Road Conditions of the 1940s
April 15, 1941
Impassible muddy conditions along State Highway 13 between Butternut and Glidden, with a truck of the Flambeau Freight Lines stuck up to its axles.
Road Crew
January 1919
View of the road crew at work on State Highway 11 (now 14) in Richland County.
Interstate Resurfacing
1985
View from an overpass of a resurfacing operation on I90/94 near Madison.
