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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Oscar Mayer & Company, 910 Mayer Avenue at Packers Avenue. Shows stock yards, railroad cars and automobile parking lot. Also shows C.E. & P.... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Shows lands in green owned and for sale by Homeseekers Land Company, H.J. McKusick, Secretary. Map, part colored. No scale. Photographs on reverse of origi... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 04 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen pose on a steam-powered pile driver at work at the north end of the slough on the Wisconsin River. The railroad was extended from the village to th... |
| Date: | 08 15 1911 |
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| Description: | Dam site on the Wisconsin river, looking southwest along the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. The coffer dam and two pile drivers are also visible... |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
| Date: | 10 11 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of high water on the Wisconsin River which has inundated the coffer dam at the construction site. The narrow gauge railroad (curved line in f... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View from railroad tracks of a group of six people standing on the platform of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul depot. Beyond the depot is a water tower... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An original color lithograph promoting the Union Pacific Railway Streamliner, and the "City of Denver." In the artist's depiction, a yellow Union Pacific p... |
| Date: | 03 1928 |
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| Description: | Power lines along both sides of railroad tracks running through a rural area. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A map that shows the lands for sale by the Tomahawk Land Company of Tomahawk, Wisconsin, in the counties of Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida, and Price. The map s... |
| Date: | 01 1983 |
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| Description: | "This photo shows the John Steger home on the West Bend Road, foreground, the Willard Bogenschneider farm in the middle distance, and Theresa Station and t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working on the railroad near a farm field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | This 1900 map of Walworth County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, landownership and acreages, rural residences, cities and v... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | This is one of a set of two topographical maps showing land use, roads, railroads, bridges, and buildings with ownership in parts of LaFayette, Greenfield,... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | This map shows the Soo Line railroad and Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company lands in red. The top margin of the map reads: "Wisconsin, the safest state in the U... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | This map shows communities, state roads, county roads, railroads, lakes and rivers in the county. Areas marked in red are lands tax deeded to the county. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Switchman standing at the switch next to railroad tracks cut through a rock formation. Another man is standing on top of the rock formation on the left. In... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | This the second of a set of two topographical maps showing land use, roads, railroads, bridges, and buildings with ownership in parts of LaFayette, Greenfi... |
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