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| Date: | 06 16 1962 |
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| Description: | View looking toward the ruins of Old Walker Hotel. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of the railroad crossing where rubber paving was used for the first time in the United States. Caption at top reads: "First Rubber Crossing in U.S. S.... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee Road and Chicago & Northwestern Railway crossing on Monona Bay, the site of the old MX tower. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Unprotected railroad crossings were a particular hazard for automobiles as this 1923 poster issued by the American Railroad Association dramatically points... |
| Date: | 03 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Northwestern passenger train and truck collision at Commercial Avenue crossing in which two people, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Thompson (Alice) were killed. T... |
| Date: | 03 1907 |
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| Description: | The engine of a train stopped at a crossroad, possibly near International Harvester's McCormick Works (factory). |
| Date: | 07 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Two children on bicycles waiting for a Milwaukee Road train to "unblock" the entrances to Brittingham Park. Most children not on bicycles crawled under the... |
| Date: | 09 05 1947 |
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| Description: | The train engineer's view (looking east) of the Illinois Central Railroad crossing at Regent Street, Breeze Terrace, and Little Street, taken one-hundred f... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of eleven men sitting on the stage at Central High School auditorium conducting a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenu... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of part of the audience of 1,000 people who attended a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwau... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Martin W. Torkelson, regional director of the State Planning Board, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Ch... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Lowell Frautschi, Vice President Frautschi's Furniture Store, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago,... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Emerson Ela, attorney, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railro... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Joseph P. Woolsey, Pres-Treasurer Heilman Baking Co., speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwauk... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | San W. Orr, attorney, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroa... |
| Date: | 04 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from across an intersection of the John Doris house, 603-605 West Main Street at South Bedford Street. The home was once a hotel, now home to... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A caravan of International trucks en route to Chicago from International Harvester's Akron Works factory in Ohio, stops at a railroad crossing to allow a t... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A view east from the corner of South Blair and Williamson Streets. On the left is Joe's News Store (Joseph J. Kuhn) 520 E. Wilson Street and a sign for th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The East Madison Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad station, 501 East Wilson Street, from South Hancock Street, with Lake Monona in the background. ... |
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