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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: | 1859 |
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| Description: | The maple and hickory forests in the old northwest were often plagued with fires during the summer months. Hölzlhuber, on a return journey from Niagara Fal... |
| 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: | 07 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Flooded South Park Street underpass, with car stalled in three feet of water. A train is on the railroad bridge above. A young boy and girl wearing bathing... |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Men working on relief tractors on a flatbed railroad car for delivery to "tri-state tornado" victims. |
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| Description: | A large lithograph of the most immediate of the tragic results of the civil war in Mobile, Alabama, which was the great explosion of May 25, 1865. Federal ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View of a stump as it's being blown up with explosives in a field on a farm. In the background is a train. |
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| Description: | Four men pose next to a locomotive, which has a hole in its side due to an explosion. |
| Date: | 08 06 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption at bottom reads: "Destruction of H&N.E. RY Yards." Women in white dresses walk among the puddles along the flood-damaged tracks and trains of the H... |
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| Description: | View of a railway at a construction site, with wreckage on the left side and a bridge in the background. Identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town ... |
| Date: | 09 27 1908 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front right of the badly damaged Engine No. 423 of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. The boiler remains on the railroad ... |
| Date: | 07 1907 |
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| Description: | View towards the side of an Illinois Northern railroad train, with two engines, a coal car and a car with the front wall burst out. At McCormick Works. The... |
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