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Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
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...
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Car Wrecked by Powder Explosion

Date: 03 09 1911
Description: Man standing in front of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad boxcar sitting on railroad tracks. The sides of the car are splintered, destroyed by an explos...
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Railroad Wreck

Date: 1900
Description: View looking down at men gathered at railroad wreck The locomotive is on its side, and the freight cars are demolished.
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Man on Ladder on Boxcar

Date: 07 1907
Description: A man wearing a hat, bow tie and suspenders is posing standing on a ladder on the side of a boxcar at McCormick Works. There is a poster on the side that r...
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Boxcar at McCormick Works

Date: 07 1907
Description: Boxcar at McCormick Works. There is a poster on the side that reads: "Deering Threshing Machines." The front wall of the boxcar is burst out. Perhaps from ...

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