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| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Railroad advertising card showing a mail carrier on horseback on a plank road in 1776, and mail being delivered by train in 1876. A woman with two children... |
| Date: | 11 08 1860 |
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| Description: | Receipt for a package delivered to Brees' Express via Morris & Essex Railroad. There is an engraving of a train traveling through a rural landscape near th... |
| Date: | 02 22 1937 |
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| Description: | A man operates an International TD-35 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) on snow-covered ground as additional TracTracTors are unloaded from a train car marked ... |
| Date: | 04 29 1942 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards approaching trains. Men are walking across the tracks in the foreground at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Ars... |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | A man uses a forklift to move boxes of Cub Cadet lawn tractors stacked on wooden pallets onto a train car. The Cub Cadets were manufactured at Internationa... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a railroad station at Beaver Lake. Men gather in front of the station on the left where horses and carriages are parked. Signs on the stat... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad depot. A train rests at the stop while commuters wait to board from the platform. There is a horse to the right... |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 812, class G5, built by Schenectady Locomotive Works in December of 1890. There is a device on the right ... |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 1079, class J2. The engineer was Philip Currie and the fireman was Edward C. McNeill. The third man in th... |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 1155, class I4, built by the company's shop in 1901. Posing in front of the engine from left to right, ar... |
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| Description: | The fast movement was a nervous reach for something west. But along the way there was no hurry. Wait for noontime, turned round to a movement eastward,<... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across empty field towards railroad tracks. In the far background is a water tower next to a power plant. |
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