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The early NE road builders
relied heavily on horses and mules. |
![contractwgn.jpg (89667 bytes)](photos/contractwgn_small.jpg)
Contractors moving camp,
Seward County - 1920's |
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Contractor's camp near
Tecumseh - 1920's
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![contractorcamp1.jpg (100376 bytes)](photos/contractorcamp1_small.jpg)
Horse stable tents at Tecumseh
contractor's camp - 1920's |
![surveyorsnow.jpg (74189 bytes)](photos/surveyorsnow_small.jpg)
Winter survey crew between
Chadron and Rushville - 1910's |
![surveyor1.jpg (120697 bytes)](photos/surveyor1_small.jpg)
Survey crew in
Buffalo County - 1929 |
![surveyorcity.jpg (117135 bytes)](photos/surveyorcity_small.jpg)
City surveying in Lincoln,
9th St. - 1960 |
![dredgpumpers1.jpg (47615 bytes)](photos/dredgpumpers1_small.jpg)
Dredgers & Pumpers
Broadwater - 1924 |
![dredgpumpers9.jpg (118564 bytes)](photos/dredgpumpers9_small.jpg)
Pumping gravel 1 mile
South of Max - 1927 |
![tilling8.jpg (77558 bytes)](photos/tilling8_small.jpg)
Tilling equipment,
Colfax County |
![Grading10.jpg (62139 bytes)](photos/Grading10_small.jpg)
Grading - 1920's |
![grader2.jpg (84134 bytes)](photos/grader2_small.jpg)
Wallis tractor pulling
Aurora grader - 1930's |
![backslopes.jpg (138083 bytes)](photos/backslopes_small.jpg)
Grading operation |
![wagon10.jpg (70615 bytes)](photos/wagon10_small.jpg)
Well drilling, and dragline loading
trucks near Valentine - 1930's |
![wagon13.jpg (67174 bytes)](photos/wagon13_small.jpg)
Clay dumped into wagon;
platform hoisted by cables
Wheeler County |
![wagon9.jpg (81463 bytes)](photos/wagon9_small.jpg)
Horse drawn wagons
hauling fill dirt near Scribner |
![wagon1.jpg (80417 bytes)](photos/wagon1_small.jpg)
Waiting in line for a load
1930's |
![wagon12.jpg (80092 bytes)](photos/wagon12_small.jpg)
Horse driven
maintenance -1920's |
![old4.jpg (121507 bytes)](photos/old4_small.jpg)
Earth moving equipment |
![dumptruck7.jpg (70135 bytes)](photos/dumptruck7_small.jpg)
Dump truck - 1934 |
![dumptruck1.jpg (78630 bytes)](photos/dumptruck1_small.jpg)
Dump truck unloading near
Valentine-Sparks - 1930's |
![mixingplant.jpg (99582 bytes)](photos/mixingplant_small.jpg)
Mixing & depositing sand-
asphalt, Cherry County - 1931 |
![cementmixer8.jpg (107196 bytes)](photos/cementmixer8_small.jpg)
Paving operation showing
old cement mixer - 1930's |
![cementmixer11.jpg (99411 bytes)](photos/cementmixer11_small.jpg)
Cement Mixer - 1931
Scotts Bluff County |
![roadpaving4.jpg (84624 bytes)](photos/roadpaving4_small.jpg)
Road paving
Scotts Bluff County - 1931 |
![roadpaving6.jpg (80038 bytes)](photos/roadpaving6_small.jpg)
Road paving
Hwy 30 - Fremont |
![maintainer1.jpg (92238 bytes)](photos/maintainer1_small.jpg)
Maintainer near Crete-Wilber
in Saline County - 1919 |
![oldtruck4.jpg (53998 bytes)](photos/oldtruck4_small.jpg)
Maintaining a flat ditch
near York - 1922 |
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![tilling.3.jpg (78260 bytes)](photos/tilling.3_small.jpg)
Road drag in Otoe County,
near NE City - 1930's |
![john-deere01.jpg (60554 bytes)](photos/john-deere01_small.jpg)
John Deere tractor and
Adams Road Maintainer |
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