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Schlitz Train Celebrating End of Prohibition

Date: 04 07 1933
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:...
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Model at Train Station

Date: 08 13 1940
Description: Manchesters Department Store model, wearing fur jacket hat and purse, posing with the conductor who is holding her luggage on the steps of a passenger trai...
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Governor La Follette and Industrialists

Date: 01 17 1931
Description: Group portrait of Governor Philip La Follette and eight industrialists standing in front of the Governor's Residence, 125 East Gilman Street. First row lef...
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Truck and Train Crash

Date: 11 05 1930
Description: People watching railroad workers attempting to extricate the bodies of three men who died under the wheels of the Milwaukee Road passenger train locomotive...
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Queen of America's Dairyland

Date: 10 20 1946
Description: Betty Gene Gardner, Ridgeway, who was chosen Queen of America's Dairyland at the 1946 Wisconsin State Fair, is shown boarding a train for the Dairy Industr...
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Car Wreck and Train

Date: 11 27 1949
Description: Car wreckage and a Milwaukee Road switch engine are shown at the University Avenue railroad crossing. The four persons in the car were hurt. They were Mr....
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Brass Band at Railroad Depot

Date: 02 26 1915
Description: A brass band led by W.F. Casey, standing at left, welcomes four Alabama Crop Diversification Campaign speakers at a train depot. A train and several buildi...
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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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The Famous Narrow Gauge Train

Date: 1921
Description: A passenger train stopped at the depot. Three men are standing on the left, one of them pushing a cart. A row of milk cans is along the side of the depot b...
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Special Train Engine 1

Date: 1905
Description: A group of women and children and one man pose standing on the railroad tracks behind a saddle back train. On the low hill behind them is a log building, a...
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Railroad Man Standing Atop Snow-Bound Train

Date: 02 13 1946
Description: Railroad man standing on top of train of snow-bound freight cars.
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Railroad Depot

Date: 1900
Description: View across railroad tracks towards passengers, a large group of men and one young girl, waiting on the platform at the train station for the train to arri...
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Oakes Family

Date: 1910
Description: Bundled up in winter clothes, the Oakes Family poses outside the family home on the front walk. Snow covers the ground. The group includes (left to right):...
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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 ...
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Engine No. 1224

Date: 1914
Description: Railroad workers posing in front of locomotive Engine No. 1224 at Stowell Station. From left to right are Fireman John F. Fohey, yardmaster John Rice, Waym...
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School Children with Train for the Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign

Date: 1917
Description: Group portrait of school children standing on and near the train for the Union Pacific Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign.
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Retiring Railroad Conductor

Date: 12 31 1957
Description: Patrick J. Donnelly (left) on his last day of work after serving as conductor with the North Western Railway for 52 years. K.M. Prenot (right), a brakeman ...
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Warming Work

Date: 1974
Description: Two railroad workers are pulling on a chain next to a railroad car carrying coal.
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Man Cleaning Snow from Railroad Tracks

Date: 1978
Description: A railroad worker cleans snow out of a railroad track switch with a broom. He is dressed warmly with a hard hat.
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Railroad Workers

Date: 1910
Description: View of railroad workers posing for a group portrait on the rails. Three men are standing on a handcar. They all are holding the implements they use in the...

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