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Men Shoveling Around Train

Date: 02 06 1923
Description: Winter scene with a group of men holding shovels pausing and looking toward the camera. Behind them is a railroad train in deep snow.
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Snow Removal after a Storm

Date: 02 1933
Description: Winter scene showing snow removal vehicles working to clear the snow on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee after a winter blizzard.
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Train Pushing Through Snow

Date: 1923
Description: Winter scene with a Wisconsin & Michigan train pushing through snow. Men are shoveling snow in front of it. Smoke is billowing from the front of the train.
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Snow Scene Near Evergreen Store

Date: 1935
Description: Winter scene with a V-blade snowplow from the front plowing snow from a road. The snow is billowing to the left side of the road in a large arc. Trees are...
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Tunnel after Snowstorm

Date: 03 1899
Description: Winter scene of man wearing an overcoat and hat stands with a shovel at the far end of a snow tunnel shoveled through a tall snowbank.
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Digging Out Train Stuck in Snow

Date: 1937
Description: Winter scene with a group of men, many holding shovels, standing on the left watching a Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul train pushing through snow, somewher...
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Caterpillar Wausau-Plow Snow Plow

Date: 1920
Description: A winter scene showing two men standing behind the blade, on either side of the cab, of a Caterpillar Wausau-Plow Snow V-Plow. They are removing snow from ...
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Train with Snow Thrower

Date: 02 1936
Description: Winter scene featuring a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul train from the front with snow thrower attached to the engine. Smoke billows to the right and power l...
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"Daylight Store"

Date: 01 21 1917
Description: Winter scene entitled "Daylight Store," New Richmond, Wisconsin. View down sidewalk with storefronts on the right cleared of snow, and a tall snowbank alon...
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Plowing Sidewalk with I-14 Tractor

Date: 03 21 1939
Description: Elevated winter scene with a man operating a tractor in the Greendale, Wisconsin, neighborhood clearing the sidewalks of snow.
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Five Engines Bucking Snow on Soo Line

Date: 1917
Description: Winter scene with five engines bucking snow on the Soo Line. Between January 21 and 22, 1917, 9" of snow fell with drifts up to 11.5 feet covering western ...
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Snow Plow

Date: 1936
Description: Winter scene with man driving a Model RD-8 La Plant-Choate V-Plow Snow Plow with side extension blades from the front. In the background are power poles.
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Digging Out Train Tracks

Date: 02 15 1936
Description: Slightly elevated winter scene with men shoveling out a Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul train about 3.5 miles north of Ripon. The locomotive is in the backg...
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Snow Scene

Date: 03 09 1936
Description: Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the cro...
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Village in Snow

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated winter scene of Greendale (Milwaukee Co.), Wisconsin. Housing, roads and trees are visible in the distance. One person is walking through the snow...
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Snow Blowing Sidewalk

Date: 1963
Description: Winter scene of Ralph Widmer, the photographer's brother, using a snow blower. Caption: "Ralph Widmer blows snow off the sidewalk along Wisconsin Street....
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Waukesha County Highway Department Snow Plow

Date: 1937
Description: Winter scene with an International D-70 truck owned by the Waukesha County Highway Department and outfitted with a scraper clearing snow from a rural road.
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Train with Snow Thrower

Date: 1881
Description: Winter scene with three men posing in front of a locomotive with a snow thrower attached to the front of the engine. The snow trough, barely wider than the...
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Snow Blower

Date: 1963
Description: Winter scene of Ralph Widmer, the photographer's brother, using a snow blower to clear a walkway on Wisconsin Street, Theresa, Wisconsin. Written on back,...
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Digging Out Train Tracks

Date: 03 1881
Description: Winter scene with men digging out the train tracks by hand after a big snow storm. Trees and a fence line the sides of the railroad right of way. Between F...

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