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Train Wreck

Date: 07 1927
Description: On-lookers survey a wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway.
Photograph

Train Wreck

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view of the wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Corliss. A large crowd of men are watching as a Bucyrus crane is lifting a car b...
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Racine Roundhouse

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Description: The locomotive "D.K. Bush," which was built in the Racine shops of the Western Union Railroad in 1879, the same year in which the line came into the posses...
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Racine Trolley

Date: 1891
Description: View across road construction towards a horse-drawn trolley on railroad tracks on Racine Street. Men and children are standing near piles of road building ...
Photograph

Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Railroad Depot

Date: 1869
Description: The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad depot. Included in the photograph is an omnibus operated by Major Throup.
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Racine Civil War Veterans

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Description: "Civil War Day Pictures of Racine Veterans." Composite of small oval head and shoulders portraits of veterans of the Civil War, consisting of 100 Union sol...
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Artillery Target Practice Field

Date: 1927
Description: Earthwork four miles southwest of Racine, used during the Civil War in light artillery target practice to stop solid shot. Joseph Cooper is waving the flag...
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Grand Army of the Republic, Men at Encampment

Date: 1914
Description: Outdoor view of Union veterans standing near a war memorial in a square downtown.
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Reunion of the 22nd Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment

Date: 09 02 1914
Description: Group portrait of the survivors of the 22nd Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment at their reunion.

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