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| Date: | 05 1864 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of Camp Randall, where the majority of Wisconsin's soldiers were trained and mustered into the Union Army. This view, which was taken from Basc... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Fire destruction near railroad tracks after Peshtigo fire. There are wheel carriages from destroyed boxcars on and near the tracks. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a locomotive at the Bell Center depot. Men stand on the platform. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Bell Center depot with five men posing on the platform. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of a locomotive arriving at the Barnum Depot. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View from railroad tracks through covered railroad tunnel in hill. A sign on a telephone pole on the right reads: "Private Property / Thoroughfare / Keep O... |
| Date: | 01 1934 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of New Butler, in Waukesha County. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Men loading rock from Saddle Mound quarry onto a St. Paul Railroad flat car. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Visitors, dressed in their Sunday best, contrast with the rough garb of the miners. Left to right, miners were: Charles Kanass, Robert "Beaver" Smith (hold... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A panoramic aerial view of the Isthmus taken from a kite. Lake Mendota is to the right in the background with Picnic Point jutting into the lake. The photo... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from south side of the Chippewa River, with a bridge crossing it and buildings on both sides of the river. A bluff rises on the far side of t... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | View of bluffs and buildings on the shore of Lake Michigan. |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi, Minnesota. Train whistling (steam rising) for a crossing. Two men are on a train, with one standing next to the engine. |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi, Minnesota, near Hastings. Engine and car of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway with men posing sitting on the cattle-catcher, l... |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi, Turkey River Bluff. View over locomotive of diverging railroad tracks. A man with an axe is walking down the tracks on the left towards ... |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi; elevated view of train depot at Buena Vista. |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi; Turkey River Bluff. Elevated view of three men sitting on top of a train engine at a junction. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a train running parallel to the river, past the Ink Stand. Several people are standing along the tracks and waving. |
| Date: | 11 02 1918 |
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| Description: | Residential building site near railroad tracks, looking west. Several houses are under construction. Benham was a "company town" created by International H... |
| Date: | 05 10 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging in a muddy trench near bridge no. 1, mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisc... |
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