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| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a cluster of old dwellings in the center, with broken shacks and rusted cars. In the background are railroad cars, and an industrial area ... |
| 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: | 02 13 1949 |
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| Description: | French representatives arrived in Madison aboard the French Gratitude Train (Merci Train) and were welcomed at the Northwestern Depot by the governor and h... |
| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Preparing to depart by train for the forthcoming NCAA boxing meet are University of Wisconsin national boxing team defending champions and their coaching s... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A train carries McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) bouind for North Dakota farms. A sign on the train reads: "McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thr... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Men unload rail cars for the "World of Mirth Shows," an American traveling carnival with rides and a sideshow. International ID-6 diesel wheel tractors ass... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man hangs on to the side of a train from a ladder and waves his hand. Original caption reads: "Giving his engineer the 'highball' upon arrival of the 25-... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A shipment of sisal leaves at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "A train load of sisal leaves coming into t... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Engraved bird's-eye view of the wood shop, warehouse, machine shop, dry kilns, and foundry of the Manitowoc Seating Company. Several people pass in front o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Allis-Chalmers plant showing several trains on the tracks next to a large industrial building. The steam engine tender in front of the loc... |
| Date: | 07 27 1938 |
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| Description: | View across road of a row of men and women standing beside a rail car powered with an International PA-100 power unit. To the right of the car is another t... |
| Date: | 07 27 1938 |
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| Description: | Interior of a rail car powered by an International PA-100 power unit. The car was owned by the Rapid City, Black Hills, and Western Rail Road line. |
| 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: | 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: | 01 29 1952 |
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| Description: | Personnel of the 24th US Infantry Division, carrying duffel bags, prepare to board a train to Northern Japan. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph distributed by the Soo Line Railway Company, as a promotion for their shipping and passenger services. The poster features a train t... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting California as a summer's destination to be reached by train. The poster features a woman in a vibrant yellow dress overloo... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting both New York City as "the wonder city of the world," and train travel. Featuring the artist Adolph Treidler, the poster d... |
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