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Farmall Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Farmall tractors showing a map of the United States with trains speeding in all directions from Illinois. Bears th...
Photograph

Laying Rail at Kilbourn Railroad Station

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Description: Three men are laying rail on snow-covered ground at the Kilbourn railroad station.
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

Train Load of Tractors from Milwaukee Works

Date: 03 09 1927
Description: A train carrying tractors stopped on its way from Milwaukee Works (factory).
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

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.
Photograph

Train Derailment

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Description: View of a people walking on railroad tracks near a derailed train.
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

Laying 90 # Rail — Near Cassville, Wis.

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of men working on the railroad near a farm field.
Photograph

Looking North from Nelson Dewey State Park

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Description: A bird's eye view overlooking the Mississippi River, sand bars, the railroad bridge, surrounding forests and wetlands.
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...
Photograph

Sheppard's Cut-Off Signal Tower

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Description: View across railroad tracks towards a railroad signal tower. Location identified as the signal tower for the Sheppard's cut-off south of Black River Falls.
Photograph

Railroad Near Power Plant

Date: 1940
Description: View across empty field towards railroad tracks. In the far background is a water tower next to a power plant.
Postcard

Bird's-Eye View of Galesville, Wis.

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Description: View of the main street and railroad tracks going through Galesville and the surrounding neighborhoods. Fields and hills are in the distance.
Photograph

Site of Perrot's Wintering Post

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view of two men on a rock formation in the foreground, one man sitting, and one man standing holding a flag. Below them is the Mississippi River a...

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