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Osborne Works Wood Shop and Tillage Implement Plant

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Description: Elevated view of wood shop and tillage implement plant at International Harvester's Osborne Works. The factory was owned by the D.M. Osborne Company until ...
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Locomotive No. 539

Date: 1882
Description: View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ...
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Ten Oliver Plows in Field

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Description: Ten Oliver no. 5 plows attached together for tractor performance testing. In the background a row of railroad cars is passing by.
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Fauerbach Freight Cars

Date: 07 17 1934
Description: Two railroad freight cars with Fauerbach Beer signs covering their sides are parked outdoors on railroad tracks in a railroad yard.
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Land Clearing Train

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Description: View across field towards the Land Clearing Special Train, a program sponsored by the University of Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Depa...
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Aerial View of Town

Date: 1905
Description: Aerial view of town, with several large buildings along railroad tracks in the foreground, and fields and trees in the distance. Pedestrians are walking al...
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Birds-Eye View of Cameron

Date: 1907
Description: Caption reads: "Birdseye [sic] View of Cameron Wisconsin." Railroad cars are on railroad tracks between buildings, and houses and what may be the hi...
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Elevated View of Cameron

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of Cameron. Rooftops are in the foreground, and an unpaved street is along the left. Railroad tracks cut across the street, with railroad car...
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Man Using Oliver Plow

Date: 1920
Description: Rear view of a man using an Oliver plow pulled by a team of two horses to work around a tree in a field. A railroad train is in the background.
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Train Derailment

Date: 02 01 1959
Description: "Train derailment. Photo taken from North Pole Road. Hwy 28 can be seen in the distance (left)."
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J.I. Case Plow Works Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the J.I. Case Plow Works of Racine, Wisconsin, with an elevated view of the company plant and a smaller scene set on a scroll of a man driving ...
Postcard

Kissel Motor Car Company

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the Kissel Motor Car Company. The elevated view shows the factory buildings, water towers, railroad cars and track. A dirigib...
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John Steger Home

Date: 01 1983
Description: "This photo shows the John Steger home on the West Bend Road, foreground, the Willard Bogenschneider farm in the middle distance, and Theresa Station and t...
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Soo Line Tracks

Date: 08 1988
Description: "For nostalgia, a steam locomotive made a run on the Soo Line tracks."
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Depot and Yards

Date: 1925
Description: View down railroad tracks towards the New Glarus train depot. In the background is a water tower and a windmill.
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Elevated View of Stoddard

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Description: View down hill towards Stoddard, with the Mississippi River and hills in the background. The German Lutheran Church is in the foreground, and there are rai...
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Waterloo Canning Factory

Date: 1912
Description: View across road towards a canning factory. A group of workers are standing at the top of a round structure, and a conveyor belt coming out of a shed leads...
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General View

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Description: Elevated view of the railroad yards. There are numerous sheds and buildings, and piles of fuelwood and lumber. Freight cars are lined up on the tracks in f...
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Light Duty Vehicles on Railroad Cars Headed for Texas

Date: 1970
Description: Elevated view of railhead. Cars and trucks are parked near small industrial buildings on the bottom left. The "Texas Special" train load of light duty vehi...
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Light Duty Vehicles on Railroad Cars Headed for Texas

Date: 1970
Description: Elevated view from rear of railhead. Trucks are parked on the left and right, alongside the "Texas Special" train load of light duty vehicles which are on ...

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