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Wisconsin State Journal News Boys

Date: 06 21 1948
Description: Group portrait of Wisconsin State Journal newspaper carriers and a few parents, taken outside the train station, who left Madison on the train for a...
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Off to the Trenches

Date: 05 05 1918
Description: Send off for World War I recruits at the railroad station. The man leaning out of the train window is Ben Bergor, a professional magician and vaudeville pe...
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Railroad Depot

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Description: Elevated view of a crowd boarding a passenger car at the railroad depot.
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Depot and Train

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Description: View down railroad tracks towards depot with railroad train pulling into the station. Passengers are waiting on the platform, and other people are standing...
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Construction Gang — New Free Bridge

Date: 08 29 1930
Description: Group portrait of construction workers, two women and a dog at the railroad tracks near the depot. They are posed near a crane. A group of people stand on ...
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Wisconsin Central Railroad

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Description: Wisconsin Central railroad locomotive no. 120 at the railroad station. Engineer Clelland McVick is standing in the gangway, and a woman who is presumably h...
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Mil. Northern R'y Ticket Office

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Description: Intercity Light Rail Trolley on the tracks in front of the ticket office. Caption reads: "Mil. Northern R'y Ticket Office, Grafton, Wis."
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Newspaper Carriers Leave for Washington D.C.

Date: 08 16 1954
Description: Madison Newspapers Inc. newsboy John Pertzborn gives his mother, Margaret Pertzborn, a goodbye hug before boarding the train for a week in the nation's cap...

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