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| Date: | 07 08 1941 |
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| Description: | A boy rides his bike as if leading a fleet of cars, with the Lake Michigan ferry blowing smoke in the background. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor... |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Roger and Mary Sue Mallory, in front of a Christmas Tree, playing with toys their father Lieut. Col. Robert Mallory, stationed in France, sent to them. Rog... |
| Date: | 01 1874 |
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| Description: | Interior of a coach on an emigration train to the west. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 07 25 1912 |
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| Description: | A boy posing in the excavation site for the power house within the coffer dam. He is standing on the narrow gauge tracks; the high trestle is in the backgr... |
| Date: | 04 22 1911 |
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| Description: | Two men and a boy are posing on rail cars carrying two 150 horse-power boilers for use in the temporary power plant at the dam construction site at Prairie... |
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| Description: | Train depot with a boy standing between the building and the railroad tracks. There are two doors marked "Men" and "Women". Four men can be seen on the rig... |
| Date: | 05 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's Chairman of the State Highway Commission, James R. Law (left), greeting Secretary of the Interior, Julius A. Krug and his wife and son. They ar... |
| 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: | 1949 |
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| Description: | From left: unidentified man, son Andre, wife Rose, unidentified woman, Walter Wolf Peltz looking out of the window of a railroad car; Hamburg, Germany, en ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Refugees on their way to Bremerhaven, Germany to sail to the United States. The man in the center is Max Neumann, director of HIAS in Germany. On the left ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The Weinschenker family poses for a portrait in a train car. From left to right are an unidentified man, an unidentified woman, Frieda Weinschenker (sittin... |
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| Description: | Crowd listening to a whistle-stop speaker at the railroad station, possibly Taft. |
| Date: | 06 18 1951 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the University of Wisconsin Varsity Crew at West Washington Avenue railroad station. The crew poses before an unusual Milwaukee Road Rail... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men and women wait in boxcars and on the platform at a Russian railroad station. The original caption reads: "uppers and lowers on the Trans-Siberian Ry. [... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men and women wait on and near box cars at a train platform in Russia. The original caption reads: "cheapest traveling on the Trans-Siberian Ry. [Railway].... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Several well-dressed men stand near uniformed men outside a railroad car. Two young boys are in the foreground looking back at the photographer. Original c... |
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| Description: | Rail siding and handcar with crew at Slashing, Waupaca County. Three men are standing on the handcar in the foreground. A young boy is sitting on a load of... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of men, with a few women and children, gathered around a passenger train on a stop of the Union Pacific Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign. |
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