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| Date: | 05 1864 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of Camp Randall, where the majority of Wisconsin's soldiers were trained and mustered into the Union Army. This view, which was taken from Basc... |
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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
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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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| Description: | A man is sitting in the front seat of a railroad car in a small railroad train made for children, which is riding along a track in a wooded area with a bui... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Colorful locomotive pulling several cars full of children at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). Although referred to as the "Kiddie Train," the caption ... |
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| Description: | A collision of a freight train with an excursion train on the Chicago and North Western Railway, resulting in six deaths and at least 46 people injured. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View from field of cattle, barn, and silo at an International Harvester demonstration farm. Original caption reads: "IHC silo 20 feet below ground level an... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five children walking in a field behind what appears to be tenement housing. Wooden fire escapes are attached to the rear of the buildings... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Smoke rises from a steam engine pushing (or pulling) a freight train. There are bent rails and snow in the ditch. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Bridgeport depot on the Wisconsin River. A group of men and boys pose on the platform. There is a Wells Fargo Company Express sign bel... |
| Date: | 02 01 1959 |
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| Description: | "Train derailment. Photo taken from North Pole Road. Hwy 28 can be seen in the distance (left)." |
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| Description: | View of a people walking on railroad tracks near a derailed train. |
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| Description: | Elevated view down railroad tracks of a train pulling into a station. |
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| Description: | View down railroad platform of crowd of people waiting at the Ridgewood Depot, built in 1916 by architects W.W. Drinker and Frank A. Howard. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Barnegat Railroad Station. A locomotive is in front of the platform, and children and adults stand near the railroad tracks. |
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| Description: | View across river towards a railroad train on a railroad bridge crossing the river. There are signs and graffiti painted on the rocks below. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View of Norwalk looking down from a hill. Farm fields and forests surround the town. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill looking down at a river and reservoir. A railroad train is moving along railroad tracks on the opposite side of the river. Houses a... |
| Date: | 08 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad depot taken from the wooden shake roof of a building. On the right are railroad tracks, depot buildings, grain storage and a ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Front page of booklet with an engraving of a man with a team of two horses in a field with the "Celebrated Gorham Sulky Cultivator." |
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