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Book or Pamphlet

Advance-Rumely Line

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Advance-Rumely line of agricultural equipment. Features a color illustration of men loading tractors and a threshi...
Photograph

Loading Dock and Train at Osborne Works

Date: 1907
Description: View down platform of train stopped at a loading dock at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). On the dock is a large stac...
Photograph

Derailed Railcars

Date: 09 22 1997
Description: "Heavy-duty moving equipment from Michels Pipeline of Brownsville helped to move derailed cars back onto the tracks. Within 27 hours, all cars were righted...
Photograph

The Scott Fruit Company C-20 Truck

Date: 01 13 1936
Description: A man loads fruit crates onto the back of an International truck owned by the Scott Fruit Company Limited. Behind him is a ventilated refrigerator railroad...
Photograph

Train and Depot

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Description: View along railroad tracks towards a group of men and boys standing on a platform in front of the Preston Depot while a locomotive arrives. In the backgrou...
Photograph

Elevated View of Stoddard

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Description: View down hill towards Stoddard, with the Mississippi River and hills in the background. The German Lutheran Church is in the foreground, and there are rai...
Photograph

Waterloo Canning Factory

Date: 1912
Description: View across road towards a canning factory. A group of workers are standing at the top of a round structure, and a conveyor belt coming out of a shed leads...
Photograph

General View

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Description: Elevated view of the railroad yards. There are numerous sheds and buildings, and piles of fuelwood and lumber. Freight cars are lined up on the tracks in f...
Photograph

F.W. Roberts Feed Warehouse

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a feed warehouse at the railroad yards. There is a truck scale with the word "Chicago" in front of the warehouse. A freight car i...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 394-399

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Description: In the afternoon, nothing
Overnight, unseen

In the morning, a wooden horse with strangers
sending telegrams for more
Photograph

Elevated View of Railroad Depot

Date: 08 1902
Description: Elevated view of the railroad depot taken from the wooden shake roof of a building. On the right are railroad tracks, depot buildings, grain storage and a ...
Photograph

Freight Yard

Date: 1910
Description: Men posing in the Winneconne Freight Yard. Some of the men stand and sit on two hay wagons, and three men stand on the ground, in front of a box car. Some ...
Photograph

Loading Bananas on a Train

Date: 1902
Description: Group of men loading a large pile of bananas onto a train in Costa Rica. Three men wearing suits and hats are sitting and standing on top of the railroad c...
Photograph

Light Duty Vehicles on Railroad Cars Headed for Texas

Date: 1970
Description: Elevated view of railhead. Cars and trucks are parked near small industrial buildings on the bottom left. The "Texas Special" train load of light duty vehi...
Photograph

Light Duty Vehicles on Railroad Cars Headed for Texas

Date: 1970
Description: Elevated view from rear of railhead. Trucks are parked on the left and right, alongside the "Texas Special" train load of light duty vehicles which are on ...
Photograph

Railroad Coal Shed

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Description: View across field towards a long building in the distance by an open field. Identified as the railroad coal shed in Millston.
Photograph

J.T. Case Train

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Description: View across open ground towards a group of men and boys moving towards a train. The train is identified as the train for J.T. Case.
Photograph

Experimental Farmall Tractor

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Description: Early model experimental Farmall tractor (1918-1922) shown here with additional equipment, including what appears to be a radio attached. Additional enclos...
Photograph

McCormick No. 2 Harvester Thresher

Date: 03 19 1917
Description: Original caption reads: "McCormick No. 2 harvester-thresher. This model first built in 1916 was designed along lines similar to the Deering harvester-thres...
Photograph

McCormick No. 4 Harvester Thresher

Date: 06 14 1925
Description: Original caption reads: "McCormick No. 4 harvester-thresher as built for Argentine in 1925. This model was originally developed for the domestic trade in 1...

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