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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. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Pass #497 issued for free travel during the year 1878 by the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Menu of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroads Hiawatha Line opened to show both the front and back cover. During the 1930s the Milwaukee ... |
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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. |
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| Description: | "It's Always Springtime on the C&O," an advertising brochure issued by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to publicize its status as the first railroad to air ... |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway depot with several people standing outside around it. Caption reads: "C. & N. W. Depot, Ripon, Wis." |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | An original New York Central Lines railway lithograph promoting Ashtabula Harbor, Lake Erie, as the location "Where Trainloads of Appalachian Coal are Exch... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | An original passenger notice poster distributed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway regarding ticket purchases prior to train boarding. In this two-ton... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An original color lithograph promoting the Union Pacific Railway Streamliner, and the "City of Denver." In the artist's depiction, a yellow Union Pacific p... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An original color lithograph featuring a side profile view of The Milwaukee Road Hiawatha engine and one additional car. Below the image is written: "Built... |
| 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: | 11 23 1930 |
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| Description: | Full page illustrated article in the Milwaukee Journal titled "The World Voyagers go Round The Globe by Radio and Roto." Included are photographs an... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states. Information on the quality and type of any given road (pave... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | This colored map shows the entire state, along with counties in states bordering Wisconsin. There is a key to "Wisconsin Railroads," with initials identify... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Map of the United States with tour route taken by the Chicago Civic Opera Company indicated in red. The company traveled on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad S... |
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