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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 ...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Milton Junction. Rock Co. Wis.

Date: 1881
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milton Junction.
Photograph

Train Wreck

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view of the wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Corliss. A large crowd of men are watching as a Bucyrus crane is lifting a car b...
Photograph

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...
Postcard

Cochrane

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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...
Photograph

Burlington Railroad Tracks

Date: 1918
Description: View of the Burlington Railroad tracks south of the city, near Campion College. Dwellings are across a field, and snow-covered bluffs are in the background...
Photograph

New Union Railroad Station

Date: 1915
Description: New Union Railroad Station, a stop of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, was completed in the early 1840's.
Photograph

Woman at Lookout Cliff

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Description: View of a woman taking a photograph from Lookout Cliff at Devil's Lake. Below, a train runs through a field surrounded by trees.
Postcard

The Horseshoe Curve Near Ableman, Wis.

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Description: Colorized postcard of the horseshoe curve of railroad tracks. Elevated view of the railroad tracks with train snaking past a farmhouse and a bridge suspend...
Print

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 ...
Photograph

Spencer Tracy on Railroad Tracks

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Description: Spencer Tracy poses on railroad tracks holding a hat.
Photograph

Russians Working on Railroad

Date: 1918
Description: View down railroad tracks toward a group of Russian residents working to clear another set of railroad tracks running alongside. In the far distance are tr...
Postcard

Fredonia Pea Canning Factory

Date: 1915
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the pea canning factory. Caption reads: "Fredonia Pea Canning Factory, Fredonia, Wis."
Postcard

Railroad Crossing

Date: 1908
Description: View across the railroad crossing at Hales Corners. Wagons are parked along the side of the road in the background. Two men are standing on the corner near...
Photograph

Birds Eye View [sic]

Date: 1910
Description: Slightly elevated view of a town, looking down from a hill across a field, with railroad tracks curving from the right foreground to the left towards the t...
Photograph

Site of Perrot's Wintering Post

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view over trees towards the Mississippi River. 1885-90. Across the field in the foreground are people with an American flag standing along the sho...

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