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Sid on Ladder of Box Car

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Description: Sid posing as a hobo, standing on a ladder on the back of a box car. He is wearing a wristwatch, and is looking over his left shoulder and carrying a bindl...
Photograph

Power Plant

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Description: View over chain link fence towards a train on the railroad tracks near a power plant and water tower.
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Railroad Workers

Date: 1940
Description: Two men, railroad workers, fixing the wooden railroad ties. In the background are railroad cars on another set of railroad tracks.m
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Railroad Near Power Plant

Date: 1940
Description: View across empty field towards railroad tracks. In the far background is a water tower next to a power plant.
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A Railroad Coaling Tower

Date: 1940
Description: View alongside railroad tracks towards a railroad coaling tower. Railroad cars are on another set of tracks on the left. A locomotive is on the center set ...
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Steam Locomotive

Date: 1940
Description: View towards a steam locomotive coming down one of a set of five railroad tracks at a railroad crossing. A group of locomotives are parked in the backgroun...
Drawing

Atwood, Hernia & Fosmark Railroad

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Description: Line drawing of an engineer driving a whimsical locomotive along railroad tracks through a country scene, in which a bull is seen sitting on the grass and ...
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Steam Locomotive

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Description: View alongside railroad tracks looking towards an approaching steam locomotive. In the background on the right is a power plant with smokestacks.
Drawing

1963 D.C. Deering

Date: 1963
Description: Line drawing of an engineer driving a locomotive on railroad tracks. A sign on the engine car reads "1963" and on the side is: "D.C. Deering."
Photograph

General Store

Date: 1974
Description: Black watercolor of a single-story store with large wood-framed, plate-glass windows, a false front and a pitched roof. The building's external side wall b...
Photograph

Photographer Near Railroad Crossing

Date: 1940
Description: A photographer is walking near railroad tracks at a railroad crossing, with an automobile at the crossing in the background on the right. The photographer ...
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Ladish Malting Co.

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Description: View across railroad tracks towards the Ladish Malting Co. A sign in the foreground reads: "Look out for cars. Warning." Cars are parked on the far right, ...
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art in black ink of a locomotive pulling a long line of railroad cars in a strong diagonal composition. The engine advances to the lower left ...
Photograph

Madison-Kipp Corporation

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Description: View towards the building of Plant No. 1 of the Madison-Kipp Corporation on the other side of Waubesa Street. Ivy covers its brick walls. Railroad tracks r...
Drawing

"This Isn't a Tunnel!"

Date: 1941
Description: Drawing of a railroad employee standing on a handcar on the tracks painting the surface of a "tunnel" with a brush. Another man is looking at him with a ha...

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