Men working with crane and other equipment along a ditch at the side of a dirt road; one man holds a piece of equipment that deposits dirt into ditch; piles of dirt alongside road. Handwritten on front: "Backfilling 8" ditch, Austin; backfilling State Fair Road, September 1918." Handwritten on back: "Construction." Stamped on back: "Manning Bros., commercial photographers, 22-24 Witherell St., Detroit, Michigan."