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| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Ticket for a one way trip in 1976 from Madison, Wisconsin, to New York City via the Milwaukee Road. The ticket cost $71.73. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Pass # 258 issued to General Manager Charles Lapham by the Wisconsin Western Railroad for the year 1900. |
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| Description: | Ticket envelope for the Santa Fe Railroad. The bold graphic design emphasizes the streamlined, futuristic design of the railroad's locomotives. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Color brochure advertising the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Minneapolis Railroad's Hiawatha, the first streamlined steam locomotive. Hiawatha trains boas... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Chicago & Northwestern Railway passenger depot. Caption reads: "C. & N. W. Passenger Depot, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Logging Museum in Rhinelander. Caption reads: "Museum, Rhinelander, Wis." |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the Union Depot. Caption reads: "Union Depot, Milton Junction, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A day passenger train crossing the high North Western railroad bridge over the Chippewa River. Railroad tracks are along the shoreline in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Railroad Depot. North Freedom is the home of the Mid-Continent Railway Museum which operates excursion tours on a steam railroad. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertisement reads: "Castle-Pierce Printing Company" and "Jan. 1915". At bottom it reads: "Oshkosh, Wisconsin". Text on right reads: "North Station C. & N... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Railroad advertising card showing a mail carrier on horseback on a plank road in 1776, and mail being delivered by train in 1876. A woman with two children... |
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| Description: | Color postcard view of the railroad locomotive used in a famous Civil War incident, which was later retold in Buster Keaton's motion picture The General... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Two panoramic bird's-eye views of the Paine Lumber Company, including the general plant, sawmill, and lumber yards. Heading at the top says: Home of Wiscon... |
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| Description: | A view of the Morrisdale Coal Company's shaft showing surface buildings before the fire of December 15, 1899. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of John J. Sherman, a real estate broker and tax, title, collection, and passenger agent in Wausau, Wisconsin, with images of men felling trees ... |
| Date: | 07 1892 |
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| Description: | Engraved illustration depicting Frank Lenz sitting on the edge of a railroad bridge holding his safety bicycle in front of him and his box camera on his ba... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Lake Geneva Express train, engine number 1526, which ran between Lake Geneva and Chicago. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting a locomotive speeding along railroad tracks with airplanes flying overhead. The airplanes have the markings associated with American warpl... |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a Prussian leader looking back in fear at a large locomotive, with a US seal on the front, heading towards him. Text re... |
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