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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 ...
Photograph

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.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
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...
Photograph

Oscar Mayer Refrigerated Rail Car

Date: 06 22 1943
Description: Elevated view of the top of an Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad car, Chicago & Northwestern #URTX 5365 with a view of the Oscar Mayer rail yards. There is...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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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Panoramic View of the Chicago Great Western Train Traveling

Date: 1937
Description: A panoramic view of the Chicago Great Western train traveling across the countryside carrying assorted International Harvester wagons. The majority of the ...
Photograph

International Harvester's Auburn Works

Date: 07 19 1935
Description: Exterior of International Harvester's Auburn Works factory (formerly known as "Osborne Works").
Photograph

Trains Billowing Smoke

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Description: Two railroad cars appear to collide, billowing smoke.
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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Train and Depot

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Description: View along railroad tracks towards a group of men and boys standing on a platform in front of the Preston Depot while a locomotive arrives. In the backgrou...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Farmall Tractors on Railroad Train

Date: 08 31 1928
Description: View across field towards the left side of a Chicago Great Western locomotive on railroad tracks pulling cars loaded with Farmall tractors. A sign on the l...
Photograph

Paper Mill

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across field towards a bus sitting in the driveway in front of a large factory complex, which has a water tower and three smokestacks. "Airport 2 Mi."...
Photograph

Circus Train

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Description: View across field towards a train of open railroad cars carrying circus wagons.
Photograph

Long Line of Grain Elevators in Canada

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: A long line of grain elevators are behind railroad tracks. Railroad cars are sitting on the tracks.
Postcard

Great Northern Elevator "S" Annex

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Great Northern Elevator, Superior, Wis." The steel and reinforced concrete grain elevator was built by the Great Northern Railroad in...

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