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Wisconsin Central Locomotive

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Description: View across snow-covered railroad tracks towards Wisconsin Central's locomotive #4002. Industrial buildings are sending steam or smoke through smokestacks ...
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International Bread Truck

Date: 1932
Description: International delivery truck for the Weber Baking Company featuring an illustration of a railroad train and the words "Weber's Pullman Bread." A man is sit...
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Train Station with Water Tower

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Description: Train station with several men, including one standing atop a large water tower.
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Smelting Furnaces

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Description: Elevated view of industrial buildings identified as smelting furnaces. A railroad train and railroad track runs the length of the foreground of the image a...
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Train Carrying McCormick-Deering Combines

Date: 1930
Description: A train carries McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) bouind for North Dakota farms. A sign on the train reads: "McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thr...
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Manitowoc Seating Company

Date: 1900
Description: Engraved bird's-eye view of the wood shop, warehouse, machine shop, dry kilns, and foundry of the Manitowoc Seating Company. Several people pass in front o...
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Washington Bridge

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Description: Elevated view of the Washington Bridge, crossing over numerous railroad tracks. In the foreground is a train engine, dwellings, and a dilapidated brick str...
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Mining Iron Ore

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Description: Evelyth, a rapidly growing mining city, began exporting its iron ore in 1884.
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Northern Lumber Mill and Railroad Yards

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Description: Elevated view of the railroad tracks, lumberyard, and mill of Northern Lumber Mill. In the foreground is a long line of railroad cars sitting on the tracks...
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Men on Railroad Tracks

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Description: Panoramic view of group of men, boys, and girls lined up along railroad tracks, posing sitting and standing on and near two trains. There is a brick buildi...
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Birds-Eye View of Akron Works

Date: 1920
Description: Bird-eye view of factory buildings at International Harvester's Akron Works.
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Milwaukee Works Aerial View

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works.
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View of Town From Bancroft Tower

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Description: Elevated view of town buildings as seen from Bancroft Tower. A body of water and what appears to be an industrial plant are in the foreground.
Postcard

Railroad Yards

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Description: Photographic postcard of the railroad yard. Across an empty yard where a few large pipes lay, a locomotive with smoking stack and cars is on railroad track...
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Sugar Factory

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Description: A steam locomotive moves along a set of railroad tracks near a sugar beet processing plant with a tall smokestack. There are several small outbuildings in ...
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Locomotive Engine No. 1248

Date: 07 15 1915
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 1248, class I5, built by the company's shop in 1912. From left to right are waymaster Harvey Gi...
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International Harvester Branch House and Railroad — Philadelphia

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of a train stopped at the North Philadelphia depot, surrounded by various industrial buildings, including the International Harvester Company...
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Richmond Branch House

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of International Harvester's Richmond branch building. A train car rests on tracks that run adjacent to the building. Several automobiles are...
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Oshkosh Packing & Provision Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Oshkosh Packing & Provision Company, a meat packer and preserver, with an illustration of the company buildings on the waterfront, with w...
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Men Unloading Lumber from Train

Date: 1900
Description: Men unload pieces of lumber from the opened boxcars of a train near the McCormick Reaper Works factory.

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