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Observation Platform of Train at Kilbourn Station

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Description: Group of people posing on the observation platform of a train at the Kilbourn station. There is a water tower on the left.
Photograph

Crowd at Train Station

Date: 08 08 1914
Description: View from behind fence of large crowd of people getting off railroad cars. Men, women and children are standing on or near a dirt road near a railroad cros...
Photograph

International Harvester Sales Conference

Date: 01 1937
Description: International Harvester dealers from Dubuque, Iowa arriving at the Illinois Central Station for a sales conference.
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Governor Walter Goodland and Mrs. Goodland

Date: 07 31 1944
Description: Governor Walter Goodland and Mrs. Goodland board the train for the Republican Governors conference in St. Louis. The meeting was called by Thomas E. Dewey,...
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Bishop William P. O'Connor

Date: 06 16 1949
Description: Bishop William P. O'Connor of the Madison Catholic diocese as he boards a Chicago-bound train on the first leg of his trip to Rome, where he will report to...
Photograph

Group of People Gathered Beside Train

Date: 1917
Description: Group of men, with a few women and children, gathered around a passenger train on a stop of the Union Pacific Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign.
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Children and Adults Gathered near Passenger Car

Date: 1917
Description: Group of youth gathered near a passenger car listening to a man identified as "Governor Howard." The man is most likely Edgar Howard, Lieutenant Governor o...
Photograph

Capitol Train

Date: 03 03 1980
Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin riding on the underground train that connects the Capitol with the legislative office buildings. A man in work cloth...
Postcard

Just Arrived

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Description: Photographic postcard of passenger train cars that have just arrived. A crowd of people are lined up waiting for the passengers to disembark, and some are ...
Photograph

Survey Group

Date: 1895
Description: Group of surveyors from the Agricultural Department at the University of Wisconsin posing on the back platform of their railroad car 404, "the Palace Car."...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Noon Train

Date: 1906
Description: Eight men and one dog lean their heads outside of the windows of a passenger car caboose of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railway for a group portra...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Orphan Train Arrival

Date: 04 30 1909
Description: Newspaper clipping of prospective parents looking up at children in the windows of the orphan train. The caption reads: "The Arrival of the Babies."
Postcard

Milwaukee Northern Substation

Date: 1907
Description: Hand-colored view down railroad tracks toward the substation. An interurban car is on the railroad tracks, and a group of passengers are on the platform. C...
Photograph

Kilbourn City

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Description: View down platform, with railroad cars on the left, towards the Kilbourn railroad station. A crowd is standing along the platform. On the right is a lawn a...
Postcard

Lake Waubesa Station, Edwards' Park

Date: 1907
Description: View of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul passenger cars stopped behind a group of men and boys standing in the foreground. Caption reads: "Lake Waubesa Statio...

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