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| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 05 05 1897 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from bluff of a house in Cassville surrounded by bluffs, trees and farmland. Railroad tracks run between the crops and the trees, and the Mis... |
| Date: | 10 23 1923 |
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| Description: | Men working on the concrete chutes and elevated trestle. Iron reinforcing bars protrude from the forms. |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the coffer dam. The narrow gauge railroad is behind them. One of the pile drivers is in the background. A bare area on the bluff in t... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Men load a rail car with crushed gravel or other material using rock crusher(?) on a trailer. The trailer has the text "sold by Dakota Equipment Company, S... |
| Date: | 06 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of New Richmond after the tornado hit on June 12, 1899. Many people are gathered around the railroad tracks and a few others are seen among t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across Devil's Lake from the West Bluff. Railroad tracks are seen along the base of the East Bluff. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Frank Drew walks a set of railroad tracks near the entrance into a tunnel. The other end of the tunnel can be seen in the distance. A hand-drawn border fea... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Front view of train emerging from a tunnel. A hand-drawn border features two male figures running away from the train and reads, "The monster pursues." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View from inside railroad tunnel of four men walking near the entrance on railroad tracks. A hand-drawn border features a pennant with the letter "A" on it... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A distant view of Madero Lumber Company. There are houses and other residential buildings in the foreground, and the lumber works in the background. In the... |
| Date: | 01 13 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men loading pole supports into the back of an International truck owned by the Puget Sound Power and Light Company. In the foreground are railroad tr... |
| Date: | 01 19 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men standing next to mining cars near the opening of the Beam & Merritt mine as an International PA-50 power unit is installed. |
| Date: | 07 05 1965 |
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| Description: | View from the Mississippi River toward the bluffs. A residential home, old bank building, truck and railroad building are on a hill among trees below the b... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Railroad redoubt seen from the north showing the slope where General Grant's column charged on May 22, 1863, during the siege of Vicksburg. |
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| Description: | View of a woman taking a photograph from Lookout Cliff at Devil's Lake. Below, a train runs through a field surrounded by trees. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the railroad tracks around the East Shore of the lake in Devil's Lake State Park. Telephone poles are between the tracks and the s... |
| Date: | 06 04 1924 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of rocks and trees above the lake in Devil's Lake State Park. Below on the left railroad tracks run along the shoreline. Trees and bl... |
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