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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Depiction of the "modern" locomotive at the beginning of the 20th century. |
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| Description: | A depiction of the Second Locomotive is shown on the tracks and ready to roll. Caption reads: "Second Locomotive, 1845." |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Pass issued by the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company for the week of December 17-23, 1933. |
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| Description: | "The Wisconsin," a passenger car of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. This color illustration is from a dismantled scrapbook. |
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| Description: | View across tracks toward the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Station. Caption reads: "C. & M. Electric Station, Kenosha, Wis." |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Soo Line Depot, Ashland, Wis." It was built in 1890 of brownstone in the Richardson Romanesque style. Pedestrians stand on the platform of ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Chippewa Falls from the south side of the river below the falls. Includes the Sheely House Tavern, railway buildings, box cars, a train with five passenger... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards the front of the cottage. Train cars are in the background. On the original site on the west side of the Fox River, before restora... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from the top of a railroad car on railroad tracks along the Mississippi River shoreline. Ships are along the shoreline on the right, and railroad trac... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Northwestern railroad depot with a train approaching the station. Caption reads: "Northwestern Depot, Waunakee, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of mining operations. Caption reads: "'A Busy Corner' of Platteville." |
| Date: | 10 30 1909 |
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| Description: | A group of male laborers load a giant cabbage up a ramp and onto a train car. The side of the train says "Wisconsin and Michigan." A pile of other giant ca... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of flatbed train car holding a giant corn cob. Additional train cars and tracks visible in the background. Red text in the upper left corner r... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of two giant yellow apples resting on a flatbed train car. A group of apple trees stand behind the train. Red text in the upper left corner re... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a giant cucumber on a flatbed railway car. The railroad is right on the side of a lake. Red text in the upper left corner reads, "The kind ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of two giant strawberries on a flatbed railroad car. Fields and mountains fill the background. Red text in the upper portion of the image rea... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a bunch of giant strawberries resting on a flatbed railroad car. Caption reads: "Grown near Augusta, Wis." The side of the car is inscribed... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a giant fish resting on a single flatbed railroad car, next to a lake. Black text above the image field reads, "A Carload of Fish." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A giant potato rests on a single flatbed railroad car, which is part of the Great Northern line. A white banner on the potato says, "The Way We Raise Potat... |
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