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| Date: | 08 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Boys wave from the passenger cars of Uncle Bob's train, while a crowd watches the amusement park ride at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| 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 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Two children on bicycles waiting for a Milwaukee Road train to "unblock" the entrances to Brittingham Park. Most children not on bicycles crawled under the... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Herman Taylor family camping at Devil's Lake. There is a moving train in the background on railroad tracks along the shoreline of the ... |
| Date: | 05 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Youngsters from the Lakewood and Waunakee grade schools shown with the "Train of Tomorrow" at the North Western depot. The train was built for General Moto... |
| Date: | 05 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's Chairman of the State Highway Commission, James R. Law (left), greeting Secretary of the Interior, Julius A. Krug and his wife and son. They ar... |
| 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: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Train full of Polish refugees. Photograph taken by Louis Koplin during the time he worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; near the Ge... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a refugee child, Milo Weinschenker, wearing sunglasses. He is standing next to a train, as he and his family were about to leave Germany to sai... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of a two-story clapboard schoolhouse with bell tower. Groups of children pose outside and another group of children look out on... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as "home of the Pennsylvania Railroad." The poster features the artist N.C. Wyeth, and depicts... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A bearded man wearing a hat and boots is standing near a passenger train. On the left is a woman with a young girl looking on. The original caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men and women wait in boxcars and on the platform at a Russian railroad station. The original caption reads: "uppers and lowers on the Trans-Siberian Ry. [... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men and women wait on and near box cars at a train platform in Russia. The original caption reads: "cheapest traveling on the Trans-Siberian Ry. [Railway].... |
| Date: | 05 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal's 1952 spelling champion, Beth Knope, boards a train to attend the national finals. Saying goodbye are her parents Sidney an... |
| Date: | 07 22 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman and child feed a flock of chickens from a bucket while standing outside a shed. A young boy sits near the farmhouse, and a train on railroad tracks... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of men, with a few women and children, gathered around a passenger train on a stop of the Union Pacific Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign. |
| 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: | 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: | 1967 |
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| Description: | North Vietnamese children standing on the railroad track north of Hanoi. The children were photographed by David Schoenbrun, an American journalist. |
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