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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
| Date: | 05 1866 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of two men in a train locomotive observing the weighing of pig lead. Several bars of lead are stacked near the scale. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Robbers, guns drawn, escort the engineer from the locomotive in a scene from The Great Train Robbery. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central Railway's locomotive # 96 at the Waukesha depot. |
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| Description: | Cover of piano music, showing a train at night with headlight on, titled "The Midnight Flyer," March Two-Step. Arranged by E.T. Paull. |
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| Description: | Schematic drawing of the Rocket Locomotive Engine of 1829 made by R. Stephenson and Company, Engineers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The cover of a scrapbook made for Flora Dell Lake. Features a photograph of a small locomotive on a railroad track near a water tower. There are hand-drawn... |
| 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: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Front cover of the 70th Anniversary (1868-1938) John A. Salzer Seed Co. catalog featuring a colorful mix of pansies and a quotation from Shakespeare. The a... |
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| Description: | View of locomotive engine no. 518 on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad. Two men are posing on the train. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Bird-eye view of factory buildings at International Harvester's Akron Works. |
| Date: | 12 23 1952 |
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| Description: | Seven U.W. Band members play " California Here We Come" on imported English fanfare trumpets decorated with a red satin Wisconsin banner. They are standing... |
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| Description: | Left side view of locomotive engine no. 2630, a steam locomotive of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. |
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| Description: | Left side view of locomotive engine no. 7131 in Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | Right side view of locomotive engine no. 2861, a steam locomotive of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. |
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| Description: | Left side view of locomotive engine no. 2861, a steam locomotive of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. |
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