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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of Jones' sausage factory with train car on railroad tracks in front. Caption reads: "'Jones Little Pig Sausage Factory' Ft. Atkinson, Wis." |
| Date: | 10 30 1909 |
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| Description: | A group of male laborers load a giant cabbage up a ramp and onto a train car. The side of the train says "Wisconsin and Michigan." A pile of other giant ca... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of flatbed train car holding a giant corn cob. Additional train cars and tracks visible in the background. Red text in the upper left corner r... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of two giant yellow apples resting on a flatbed train car. A group of apple trees stand behind the train. Red text in the upper left corner re... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a giant cucumber on a flatbed railway car. The railroad is right on the side of a lake. Red text in the upper left corner reads, "The kind ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of two giant strawberries on a flatbed railroad car. Fields and mountains fill the background. Red text in the upper portion of the image rea... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a bunch of giant strawberries resting on a flatbed railroad car. Caption reads: "Grown near Augusta, Wis." The side of the car is inscribed... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a giant fish resting on a single flatbed railroad car, next to a lake. Black text above the image field reads, "A Carload of Fish." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A giant potato rests on a single flatbed railroad car, which is part of the Great Northern line. A white banner on the potato says, "The Way We Raise Potat... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. A horse-drawn carriage with a driver is visible behind the train. White bags filled with pota... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a giant pike on a flatbed railroad car. A text box in the lower left corner includes the quote, "The Big One That Didn't Get Away." Small t... |
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| Description: | Southside Brewery, formerly the Melm's Brewery. A bridge, a boat, a river, several small buildings, and horse-drawn vehicles are in the foreground. Caption... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Postcard of the Stork Brewery facilities. The image includes the brewery buildings along a hillside and railroad tracks in the foreground. There is a sign ... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of the Storck Brewery in Schleisingerville (now Slinger). The brewery buildings are along a hillside, and railroad tracks are in th... |
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| Description: | Panoramic photographic postcard view of a railroad depot, with assorted buildings, with barrels on the top of the roofs. Signs on sawhorses on the left rea... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a creamery, with curving railroad tracks running along the right side, and two box cars near a side door. A Model T is parked on the road ... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Oscar Mayer & Co. with Lake Mendota in the distance. Text on reverse reads: "Pictured here in aerial color view is the meat packing plan... |
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| Description: | View across field towards a sugar factory, with four smokestacks in the background. Railroad cars are on railroad tracks along the front of the building. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the warehouse and cold storage building of the Northern Wisconsin Produce Company at 1310 Clark Street. Two workmen are icing th... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "C. & N.W. Depot, Waukesha, Wis." The Waukesha Spring Brewery building is on the left and the Chicago & North Western Depot is on the ... |
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