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Trolley Car Pulling Flat Car Carrying McCormick Binder and Mower

Date: 1899
Description: Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr...
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Bird's-Eye View of Janesville

Date: 1860
Description: Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building.
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Narrow Gauge Railroad

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men transferring bodies of a standard gauge box car (of the Wisconsin Coal Co.) to the narrow gauge tracks of the Fond du Lac, Amboy & Peoria Rail...
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P&H Gasoline Crane Mounted on Flatbed Railroad Car

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger gasoline powered crane mounted on a 5-ton standard flatbed railroad car with a grab bucket. A man is standing on the ground on rail...
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Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal Fenceline

Date: 04 29 1942
Description: View down railroad tracks towards approaching trains. Men are walking across the tracks in the foreground at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Ars...
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Canadian Delivery Truck at Depot

Date: 1934
Description: Man loading Canadian Pacific Express delivery truck at a depot loading dock. In the background are industrial buildings.
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Lumber Yard

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Description: Elevated view across railroad tracks of a lumber yard. A two-story building on the right has a sign that says: "Lovejoy & Ringham". There are fences, a sto...
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Train Derailment

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Description: View of a people walking on railroad tracks near a derailed train.
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Laying 90 # Rail — Near Cassville, Wis.

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of men working on the railroad near a farm field.
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Man with Milwaukee No. 12 Harvester and Binder

Date: 07 24 1906
Description: Right side view of a man sitting on a Milwaukee No. 12 Harvester and Binder (grain binder). In the background are men standing by a large metal gate and ra...
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Alabama Sawmill

Date: 05 1902
Description: Alexander Krueger and Ernst Goetsch standing along a railroad track leading to a sawmill. The mill stais at the end of the tracks, which is lined with tree...
Poster

Crimean War Themed Advertising Broadside

Date: 05 1854
Description: This yellow and black wood block print broadside ties England and France's declaration of war against Russia during the Crimean War into a war against high...
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Wagner Railroad Station Panorama

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Description: Panoramic view of four men and a child standing in front of the station of the Wisconsin & Michigan Railroad. One of the men is crouching near two handcars...
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Dangers of Children on Railroad Tracks

Date: 05 19 1959
Description: Kathy Cramer, an eighth-grader at Cherkokee Heights school demonstrates "what not to do" on the Illinois Central railroad tracks near the school by crossin...

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