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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of the Fox River, looking east, from railroad tracks. There is a bridge further down on the right. Buildings line the shoreline on the left, and a lar... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Cochrane and the surrounding landscape. There are houses, railroad tracks, distant fields, a pond and some irrigation canals. Caption read... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Genoa. Caption reads: "Bird's Eye View, Genoa, Wis." The St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church is in the right foreground. Railroad tracks ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising poster showing the Civil War Battle of Atlanta. Produced for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, the poster features insets ... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Train station in the distance, with a man standing in the foreground on steps leading down to the lake, near a fenced-in pond. On the left are railroad tra... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | View down the hill toward the U.S. Coast Guard Station on the left with two communications towers on the Lake Michigan shoreline. Railroad tracks are just ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Looking north at the Menomonee Valley. Road incorrectly identified on the postcard as twenty-second street viaduct. Pedestrians and carriages are crossing ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Illustrated map of Crawford County. On the bottom right is an inset of a group of people near a train on a railroad track. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | This colored map shows railroad lines east of the Mississippi as well as in the states bordering the Mississippi River. The Great Lakes and Gulf of Mexico ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Drawn around 1855, this map shows the placement of railroad tracks in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois connecting Milwaukee, Prairie du Chien, Gale... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Postcard of the Stork Brewery facilities. The image includes the brewery buildings along a hillside and railroad tracks in the foreground. There is a sign ... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Prepared for the State Board of Emigration in 1868, this map shows county boundaries, some cities, and completed and projected railroads. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Map of Wisconsin and portions of Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa show the major railway tracks and their connections in red and blue ink. Lakes, riv... |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard of a two-story house in front of Target Bluff. In the foreground, railroad tracks and a low fence can be seen. Many trees surround... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of Easter Bluff, with many trees. In the foreground two sets of railroad tracks can be seen. A post and wire fence runs along the edge o... |
| Date: | 07 01 1925 |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard of Target Bluff. Trees are on top of the bluff and also below. Railroad tracks are at the base. Text at foot reads: "Target Bluff,... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of the Storck Brewery in Schleisingerville (now Slinger). The brewery buildings are along a hillside, and railroad tracks are in th... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a painting depicting an Olympian Hiawatha locomotive and an Olympian Hiawatha observation car traveling in the western United States. A man... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | This map is a folded insert from the pamphlet "Yesterday and Today : A History." The map features the North-Western Line with labeled railway tracks and st... |
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