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| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Road Service Club family party at E.R.A. Hall, with seven male officers in line being served food by three women, with a small boy looking on. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | At the opening of the railway between Grandhaven and Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 26, 1857, the locomotive Grand Rapids was manned by the railroad... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Road float for Wisconsin Centennial Parade, "Wisconsin's First Railroad," with four women in sun dresses. |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Road float for the Wisconsin Centennial Parade, "Wisconsin's First Railroad," with women on the float and eleven workers standing in front of the... |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers as a golden stake is driven as a part of a ceremony to celebrate the completion of the Tanana Valley Railroad. Caption reads: "Driving Gold... |
| Date: | 04 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Four women who attended the dessert bridge party given by the Milwaukee Railroad Women's Club for the Northwestern Railroad Women's Club at Manchester's Ma... |
| Date: | 03 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Walter S. Alcumbrac, Madison superintendent of the Madison division of the Chicago and North Western Railway Company, (right) receives a plaque for the bes... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the Chicago and North Western Railway's 100th Anniversary from 1848 to 1948. The poster features the artist Paul... |
| Date: | 11 06 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior of dinner menu for Special Train enroute from St. Louis, Missouri, to Brownsville, Texas, with an oval portrait of President-Elect Warren G. Hardi... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Menu from the Dining Car "Minneapolis" on the Chicago & North Western Railway, with an illustration of a child in shorts, a loose top, and a bonnet standin... |
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| Description: | Buffet luncheon and drinks menu for the CMSP&P railway, with a waiter ready to serve a table of three men sitting at a table in the lounge car with drinks ... |
| Date: | 02 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Harry Marsh, right, is presented with a photo-sketch of himself at a retirement dinner in his honor. He retired as the Madison agent for the North Western ... |
| Date: | 05 24 1952 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin School for Boys Band, under the direction of Arnold Krueger, provided the musical entertainment for the dedication ceremony of the Waukesha D... |
| Date: | 10 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Dr. Clifford L. Lord (second from left), director of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, unveiled the Wisconsin Central Railroad historical marker at H... |
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