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Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Depot

Date: 1909
Description: View across railroad tracks of a man and a dog posing on the platform in front of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul depot. In the background on the left...
Postcard

Tank Cottage in the Spring

Date: 1910
Description: View across lawn towards the front of the cottage. Train cars are in the background. On the original site on the west side of the Fox River, before restora...
Photograph

Madero Lumber Co.

Date: 1912
Description: A distant view of Madero Lumber Company. There are houses and other residential buildings in the foreground, and the lumber works in the background. In the...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1913
Description: View down of Main Street, which is a dirt street passing through the central business district of the town, featuring several storefronts with porches and ...
Photograph

Scene at Bangor

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Description: View of railroad tracks near a railroad station on the left and a residential road on the right. There is a row of utility lines leading into the far dista...
Photograph

Elevated Town View with Railroad Tracks

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Description: Elevated view of town buildings with railroad tracks running through the town. A railroad depot stands in the foreground.
Photograph

Knudson Cheese Co.

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior of the Knudson Cheese Company. The lawn is covered with flowers. A man sits on the porch. A railroad car is on the left.
Photograph

South Bend Branch House

Date: 09 27 1919
Description: Exterior rear view of International Harvester's South Bend branch building. A railroad car stands on tracks that run past the building at the loading dock....
Photograph

York Iron Works

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Description: York Iron Works with a view of the blast furnace. On the hill is the boardinghouse and the dance hall. A man is working near the railroad cars, and other p...
Photograph

York Iron Works

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Description: Elevated view of York Iron Works with a view of the blast furnace and pig iron stock piles. The boardinghouse is visible on the hill in the far background.
Photograph

Wilton House

Date: 1914
Description: View across road and railroad tracks towards the Wilton House Hotel. A portion of the back of a railroad car is on the right. Three men are sitting on the ...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

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Description: He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,
letting automation by
to wipe the chimneys clean of issues
and make horizons in the sky
Photograph

Sid Holding Shotgun on Toonerville Trolley

Date: 04 21 1974
Description: Portrait by photo journalist, Edwin Stein, of Sid in his backyard standing on the back of the Toonerville Trolley holding a shotgun. Sid is wearing a large...
Photograph

Worker Housing

Date: 03 1913
Description: A small electric train engine identified as P.R.R. [Panama Railroad] 8 is parked in front of a row of two-story wooden houses. Lumber is piled near the tra...
Postcard

Two Seymour Businesses

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Seymour, Wisc." Two photographs, each in a frame on a black background. The "Sunbright Roller Mills" has a group of men standing with...
Postcard

The Wayside Inn

Date: 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "The Wayside Inn. Walworth, Wis." Also known as the Wayside Hotel, it was built in 1902 of brick with porches on all three levels. A m...
Photograph

Men in Old Car

Date: 1918
Description: View toward four men riding in a car, with deer fixed to the left running board and the rear. Some of the men are smoking cigars. Behind them is the Nathan...

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