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Barnum Depot

Date: 1912
Description: View down railroad tracks of a locomotive arriving at the Barnum Depot.
Photograph

Train at Valders

Date: 1912
Description: A single passenger awaits the arrival of a train at the Valders station. The train, which is a mixed local on the Manitowoc line, is being pulled by Minnea...
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Railroad Station

Date: 1912
Description: View of a railroad station. In the background are buildings at the base of a bluff.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: A Carload of Fish

Date: 1912
Description: Photomontage of a giant fish resting on a single flatbed railroad car, next to a lake. Black text above the image field reads, "A Carload of Fish."
Photograph

International Harvester Transfer Agency

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of an International Harvester Transfer Agency building with several men standing on a platform surrounding it. Railroad tracks are located on...
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Des Moines Branch House

Date: 1912
Description: Bridge and rail yard near an International Harvester branch house in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The branch house building is in the distance.
Photograph

Evansville, Indiana Branch House

Date: 1912
Description: International Harvester branch house.
Photograph

Logs at Sawmill

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of an International Harvester sawmill, with logs stacked on railroad cars on a railroad track.
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Elevated View of Men at Sawmill

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view of two men with donkeys stand on railroad tracks at an International Harvester sawmill lumberyard.
Photograph

Madero Lumber Co.

Date: 1912
Description: A distant view of Madero Lumber Company. There are houses and other residential buildings in the foreground, and the lumber works in the background. In the...
Photograph

Bridge Across Sugar River

Date: 1912
Description: View across a railroad bridge with metal truss system over the Sugar River.
Photograph

Depot

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior of the depot and railroad tracks. The depot has a "Cazenovia" sign.
Photograph

Depot

Date: 1912
Description: Train at Coon Valley depot. Several men stand on the platform. The depot has a water tank. There are advertisements for Pearl White Soap, the inter-state f...
Photograph

Train Depot — Looking North

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view of the De Soto depot. A locomotive, blowing steam, is approaching the platform, where a small group of people waits to board. A boxcar on the...
Photograph

C.M. St. P. Railroad Wreck

Date: 1912
Description: View of group of men standing around the train wreck of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad near Turkey River, Iowa across the river from...
Photograph

Sun Prairie Canning Company

Date: 1912
Description: View from railroad tracks towards the back of the canning company. There are freight cars parked near the loading dock. Two smokestacks are behind the buil...
Photograph

Quarry and Crew at Stone Company

Date: 1912
Description: Group portrait of quarrymen posing with their implements. There are carts on tracks that lead to the cliffs of the quarry behind the group.
Postcard

U.S. Soldiers

Date: 1912
Description: Photographic postcard view of troops marching on the road across the railroad tracks past the depot.
Postcard

Lake Mills Railroad Depot

Date: 1912
Description: View towards the Lake Mills Railroad Depot. A passenger train is on the tracks on the left. A light rail trolley is on the sharply curving tracks on the ri...
Photograph

Blueberry Trip

Date: 1912
Description: A group of people are walking away down the railroad tracks in search of blueberries. A pine and hemlock forest is on either side of the tracks. Caption re...

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