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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Ford truck of Madison plumber W.J. Hyland parked outdoors. |
| Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Railroad construction crew working on a Chicago & Northwestern Railroad crossing, looking west up the 400 and 500 blocks of East Wilson Street. |
| Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Construction crew working on a Chicago & Northwestern Railroad crossing, looking northwest along the 100 block of South Blair Street. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central Railway locomotive #2035 and a work train on a track clean-up assignment. Locomotive #102 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 18... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad locomotive #1100, a class I engine, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1873 and originally numbered #199. Th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway freight depot, 40 North Frances Street. Men posing in front of the depot from left to right are: William Dunn... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers Local 80 picketing the Campbell Soup Company plant. The union had walked out as a result of wage, union shop, an... |
| Date: | 05 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Thirty-six Verona first and second grade pupils rode the Chicago and North Western train from Verona to Madison, for twenty-two it was a first train ride. ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger gasoline powered crane mounted on a 5-ton standard flatbed railroad car with a grab bucket. A man is standing on the ground on rail... |
| Date: | 10 31 1938 |
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| Description: | A man smoking a cigarette shovels what appears to be gravel onto the back of an International D-30 truck marked "City of Quincy" from a train car. |
| Date: | 12 16 1936 |
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| Description: | A man places a bag onto the bed of an International C-1 truck owned by the Chicago Rock Island Railroad. The truck is marked with the text "No.9" and "Wate... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad shipping yards of the Idaho and Washington Northern Railway. Included in the image are numerous buildings, workers, trees, an... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across canal of the McCormick Reaper Works factory, rail yard, and surrounding buildings. Men in the foreground are stacking piles of lumber. After 19... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An International Model S truck owned by T.W. Rice is parked alongside an opened railroad boxcar as a man unloads a plant from the truck bed. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, established in 1830. The city's dwellings and establishments can be seen on a hillside from the railroa... |
| Date: | 09 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a twine mill under construction. Railroad cars are on tracks in the foreground. A large smokestack is in the center. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of railroad workers posing for a group portrait on the rails. Three men are standing on a handcar. They all are holding the implements they use in the... |
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