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Bertha Middleton and Myron Becker

Date: 12 27 1947
Description: Bertha Middleton greeting her brother Myron Becker at the Milwaukee Road railway station on Franklin Street. The siblings had not seen each other for 23 y...
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Freight Train

Date: 1905
Description: Smoke rises from a steam engine pushing (or pulling) a freight train. There are bent rails and snow in the ditch.
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Railroad Crew and Boy on Handcar

Date: 1872
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...
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Trolley Car Pulling Flat Car Carrying McCormick Binder and Mower

Date: 1899
Description: Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr...

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