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The early NE road builders
relied heavily on horses and mules. |
Contractors moving camp,
Seward County - 1920's |
Contractor's camp near
Tecumseh - 1920's
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Horse stable tents at Tecumseh
contractor's camp - 1920's |
Winter survey crew between
Chadron and Rushville - 1910's |
Survey crew in
Buffalo County - 1929 |
City surveying in Lincoln,
9th St. - 1960 |
Dredgers & Pumpers
Broadwater - 1924 |
Pumping gravel 1 mile
South of Max - 1927 |
Tilling equipment,
Colfax County |
Grading - 1920's |
Wallis tractor pulling
Aurora grader - 1930's |
Grading operation |
Well drilling, and dragline loading
trucks near Valentine - 1930's |
Clay dumped into wagon;
platform hoisted by cables
Wheeler County |
Horse drawn wagons
hauling fill dirt near Scribner |
Waiting in line for a load
1930's |
Horse driven
maintenance -1920's |
Earth moving equipment |
Dump truck - 1934 |
Dump truck unloading near
Valentine-Sparks - 1930's |
Mixing & depositing sand-
asphalt, Cherry County - 1931 |
Paving operation showing
old cement mixer - 1930's |
Cement Mixer - 1931
Scotts Bluff County |
Road paving
Scotts Bluff County - 1931 |
Road paving
Hwy 30 - Fremont |
Maintainer near Crete-Wilber
in Saline County - 1919 |
Maintaining a flat ditch
near York - 1922 |
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Road drag in Otoe County,
near NE City - 1930's |
John Deere tractor and
Adams Road Maintainer |
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