1930s and '40s

	Crews for a city of Milwaukee work project made laying sewer pipe a community affair as they relayed sections of the massive pipe for placement beneath 36th Street in September of 1934. The goal of the project was to relieve the area of backwater and basement flooding occurring after every rainfall. Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Negative No. Whi3369
	President Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated the New Deal in the 1930s to revive the nation's devastated economy. The federal government poured millions of dollars into construction projects, including the March 16, 1934, construction of this Fond du Lac County poorhouse. The project was initiated by the Wisconsin Civil Works Administration. Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Negative No. Whi (X3) 45181
	Wisconsin's Civil Works Administration spread its construction projects throughout the state when the country was feeling the squeeze of the Great Depression. Jobs such as this road project on March 9, 1934, at the Tri-State Fairgrounds in Superior, proved that despite the hardships of the time, people were still willing to prepare for the warm, sunny days ahead at the fair. Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Negative No. Whi1288
	A Halquist Stone Company delivery truck catches a load of stone at an unknown quarry in 1940s southeastern Wisconsin. The company is still plying its trade today in Sussex. Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Underground Contractors Association
	A priest blesses a 1948 construction site for a new Catholic church in Lime Ridge. Kraemer Brothers was laying the foundation for the church at the time, and it seems the blessing extended beyond the church because Kramer Brothers is still going strong today. Photo courtesy of Kraemer Brothers LLC

 

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