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Works explorer

Building a highway

United States, 1948
film

A survey of the role of highways in America’s system of transportation and the major processes of roadbuilding including: first surveying, cutting, scra..

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The American road

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A Road is built

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Building a house

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Federal highway

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The Development of transportation

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Highways in action

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Bridging the highways

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An Enquiry into the American highway

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The Highway of steel

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Highways making history

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Give yourself the green light

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Roads at work

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Roadworks

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Great Lakes: Highway to commerce

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Build yourself a world H.S.

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