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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
| Date: | 12 11 1926 |
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| Description: | Fire destroyed the Atlas Flour Mill, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Thirteen engine companies, six truck companies, and two fire boats fought the... |
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| Description: | The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, next to a barge with other steamboats at the levee in Winona between 1870 and 1880. Railway cars are on a siding in... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | The harbor, showing the sidewheel packet, "Belle of La Crosse," and the sidewheel ferry "Alex McGregor." Other boats are also seen including two barges loa... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the sidewheel packet, Keokuk, at the Winona, Minnesota levee between 1858 and 1866. A barge and railway cars are in the foreground. |
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| Description: | View across water towards Best's South Side Brewery. There are railroad cars in front of the brewery. |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi, Minnesota. Train whistling (steam rising) for a crossing. Two men are on a train, with one standing next to the engine. |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi, Minnesota, near Hastings. Engine and car of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway with men posing sitting on the cattle-catcher, l... |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi; The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad bridge across the Vermillion River. A CM&SP train is crossing the bridge. Two men are posin... |
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| Description: | View of Kilbourn bridge with railroad train. Steamboat and rowboats at edge of river. |
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| Description: | Bridge over river with railroad train. "Apollo No. 1" steamboat under bridge. Boats are along the shoreline. |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi; elevated view of train depot at Buena Vista. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a boat called "The Imperial" moored along the dock at the McCormick Reaper Works. The boat is loaded with freight. In the backgro... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers loading and unloading wood at the wood stock yard of the McCormick Reaper Works. Men are working on both sides of the Chicago River. Rail cars and ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | McCormick Reaper Works and rail yard as seen from across a canal. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company until 1902 when it beca... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of La Crosse from the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 05 10 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging in a muddy trench near bridge no. 1, mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisc... |
| Date: | 02 22 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers using a steam shovel to dig a "borrow pit" for the no. 2 mine. The shovel is loading soil onto a rail car on a narrow gauge railroad track. Benham ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Southwest panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works factory and rail yard as seen across a canal. Workers can be seen unloading wood. |
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