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| Date: | 04 21 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Commercial Club Band posing at a rail yard with a newly arrived shipment of McCormick-Deering ball-bearing cream separators. The cream... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op... |
| Date: | 06 14 1927 |
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| Description: | Loading barrels into a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad car behind the Hess Barrel Company (cooperage) at about 1950 Atwood Avenue. Stacks of oak barrel h... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Members of the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club posing at the rear of a train during the Spring Tour of 1896. Railroad employees and o... |
| Date: | 04 21 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a marching band posing in front of trucks loaded with International Harvester cream separators, recently arrived by train. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard. Two men walk up a ramp leading into a railroad car. Both men are pushing large i... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Man standing with arms outstretched atop a giant potato, resting on a red flatbed train car. The train car says "B & A 321" on the side in white letters, ... |
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| Description: | Photomontage of two giant green apples resting on top of a flatbed railroad car. Caption reads: "Grown near Ruby, Wis." Marking on the side of the railroa... |
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| Description: | Photomontage of two giant heads of lettuce/cabbage resting on a flatbed railroad car. The side of the car is imprinted with, "L.S. & M.S. 26 D23," showing... |
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