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Elevated View of Rally

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Description: Elevated view of a rally of employees for liberty loan campaign. The factory yard is crowded with people, and other people are sitting on the elevated rail...
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Boarding Train

Date: 1935
Description: People on railroad platform boarding a train.
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Beloit Hospital

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Description: View of the Beloit Hospital from an intersection. There are people sitting on a second floor balcony in a building on the corner. A person is riding a bicy...
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Railroad Station

Date: 1890
Description: People with horses and wagons are congregated at the railroad depot.
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Group of Women at Railroad Station

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Description: Crowd of women at railroad station. People are getting on and off of the train.
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100,000th Farmall Celebration

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view over crowd of people towards a man standing on a platform, possibly Cyrus McCormick III. He is speaking to a large group of people gathered o...
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Group of People at Railroad Station

Date: 1898
Description: Group of people looking at single car at the railroad station, probably a special car for a traveling minstrel show.
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Soo Line Train Wreck

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Description: Elevated view of Soo Line train wreck. There are railroad tracks with overturned cars, and people standing around.
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Observation Platform of Train at Kilbourn Station

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Description: Group of people posing on the observation platform of a train at the Kilbourn station. There is a water tower on the left.
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Railroad Depot

Date: 1910
Description: A train is parked in the St. Louis and San Fransisco railroad depot, with people gathered nearby. Sign on building reads: "Lunch Room Fred Harvey."
Postcard

Scene at Mine Disaster

Date: 11 13 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry,...
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Freedom Train "Spirit of 1776"

Date: 06 24 1948
Description: Elevated view of the Freedom Train. A line of people are behind the locomotive. In the background are the storage tanks for Fiore Coal & Oil Co.
Postcard

Freight Cars Wrecked

Date: 09 16 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Freight Cars Wrecked at Sheridan, Wis." A group of people are posing with a line of severely derailed and damaged railroad cars.
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Debris On Shoreline

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Description: Elevated view across water towards a building at the top of a steep incline, with a small group of people to the left. On top of the hill to the right are ...
Postcard

Snow Plow That Did the Work at Dorchester, Wis.

Date: 03 18 1917
Description: Photographic postcard view of a group of people standing in front of two locomotives, the one on the right with a snowplow attached. Caption reads: "Snow P...
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Matanuska Railroad Station

Date: 07 18 1935
Description: Elevated view of people on the platform at the railroad station. Caption with negative reads: "Alaska's tourist season at height — McKinley park route tour...
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Duncan Hines Advertisement

Date: 01 16 1953
Description: Six people are standing in front of a railroad car with a Duncan Hines advertisement on the side, two boxes of cake mix and a large cake with the sign: "An...
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E.P. Allis & Co. Reliance Works

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of factory with lake and ships in the background. Trains, people, horses, and carriages, with a multitude of smokestacks in foreground. The f...
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Truck Wreck

Date: 06 22 1935
Description: A crowd of people viewing the remains of a Keystone Fuel & Material Co. truck after it was crushed by a Milwaukee Road train, near the Brittingham Park cro...
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View of Minocqua from Boxcar

Date: 1916
Description: Elevated view of the town from a boxcar. People are posing in the street on the right. A lake is in the upper right, and railroad tracks and a rail car are...

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