Do you remember?

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We know this was a crew working a Wisconsin and Northern Railroad Construction project somewhere in Wisconsin. That's the best we can offer on this one.

Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society,
Negative No. WhiCF 5924 1
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We know this crew was working the streets of Kilbourn City (Wisconsin Dells) with a Buehler's Sidewalk Machine. We can also assume that when you need to take a load off, wheelbarrows worked as adequately as a chair then as they do now.

Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society,
Negative No. Whi (X3) 30215
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All we can say is this photo highlights the equipment and operations of J. Rasmussen and Sons, a paving contractor from Oshkosh. It's not much, but we do know the photo was taken between 1900 and 1950.
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We can't even guess where this J. Rasmussen and Sons' equipment was being used, but we can rest assured that they had the good sense to mount an umbrella on the machine to fight off the brutal effects of a hot summer sun. The Oshkosh paving contractor took to the roads on these pavers sometime between 1900 and 1950.

Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society,
Negative No. Whi (X18) 7608
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Who, when or where are outside our grasp, but, at the risk of stating the painfully obvious, we can say these are two steamrollers working a road construction job.

Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society,
Negative No. Whi (X18) 7604
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We know who it is and where it took place, but we couldn't quite date this particular project. That's understandable considering that the construction of this carpenter shop was in the Village of the 1890s at the Stonefield Farm and Craft Museum in Cassville. Members of the Wisconsin State Council Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners used almost forgotten methods of timber framing and eschewed modern tools for a hand-operated boring machine, cross-cut saw, double-bladed ax, chisels and mallets. The crew also decided not to use nails on the structure, opting instead to pin the timbers together with wooden pegs.

Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society,
Negative No. WhiPH 3282

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