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| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | On-lookers survey a wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of Fitchburg depot with train at platform, and a group of men and women waiting outdoors. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Locomotive, with view east on West Washington Avenue toward the Wisconsin State Capitol. There is a sign near the tracks that reads: "Look Out for The Cars... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin Central Railroad passenger depot at Stuntz Avenue. A group of people stand on the platform and near the locomotive between t... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Milwaukee Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway station. |
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| Description: | Train station with several men, including one standing atop a large water tower. |
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| Description: | CB&N Railroad locomotive entering town. Railroad station in center. |
| Date: | 05 01 1865 |
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| Description: | Albumen print of Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession. Thirty-six maidens in white surround Lincoln's hearse as it passes through the funeral arch, probabl... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Columbian Exposition pavilions from the vantage point of Lake Michigan. Included is an inset of the Union Passenger Station (now Uni... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the Fox River, a train, the mill, a warehouse, and a steamboat. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Soo Line Depot, Ashland, Wis." It was built in 1890 of brownstone in the Richardson Romanesque style. Pedestrians stand on the platform of ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Multiple views of Haugen, including a church, a school with a group of students posed outside, and a locomotive at the railroad station, etc. Caption at to... |
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| Description: | View across multiple sets of railroad tracks towards two locomotives at a railroad city yard in Milwaukee (probably the Hiawatha). There is a dense cloud o... |
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| Description: | View from train platform looking back toward Johnson Creek businesses and houses. Railroad cars are on the left, and a set of railroad tracks are on the ri... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad station looking west. A bridge over the river is in the foreground, and a large water tower is across the railroad tracks on ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Clockwise from upper left images include: Cutters Point, Long Lake, Wis.; M.E. Church, New Auburn, Wis.; Farmers Store, New Auburn, Wis.; Public School, Ne... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of the downtown section. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Bridge and rail yard near an International Harvester branch house in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The branch house building is in the distance. |
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| Description: | A train, engine number 560, on the track at the train depot in Corliss. |
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