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Flooded Park Street

Date: 07 20 1948
Description: Flooded South Park Street underpass, with car stalled in three feet of water. A train is on the railroad bridge above. A young boy and girl wearing bathing...
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Girl at Minirama Dells Landing

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Description: Young girl in a bathing suit standing on a platform in the water looking over the Minirama scale model of Dells Landing. Also in the photograph are a minia...
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Railroad Bridge

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Description: View from shoreline of railroad bridge across a river. Two girls and a boy are standing on the opposite side of the river near the shoreline.
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Railroad Bridge

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Description: View from below of several freight cars on a railroad bridge over a river, with three men standing on top of a railroad car. A woman with a child is standi...
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Bridge

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Description: View down railroad tracks of a railroad bridge, which has framed beams on the sides and top. A boy and girl are standing and posing on the bridge. Signs ar...
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Bridge Construction

Date: 1906
Description: Steel span railroad bridge under construction over Cedar Creek.
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Cut-Off Bridge from Below

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Description: View looking up at two individuals, perhaps children, sitting at the top of a brick foundation underneath a bridge. Location identified as the cut-off brid...
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Railroad Bridge and Harrison Street Bridge

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Description: View towards a girl standing on a bridge on the right in the foreground. In the background a train is passing over a railroad bridge over a river. The brid...
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Boys Make Big Splash

Date: 05 15 1957
Description: Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There...
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Mississippi Steamboat Quincy

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Description: View towards the front right of the Quincy, with passengers posing and waving along the decks. There is an oval insert at bottom right with a view t...
Postcard

Below the High Bridge After the Flood

Date: 07 23 1912
Description: Text on front reads: "Below the High Bridge After the Flood. Wausau, Wisconsin." Railroad cars were swept away when dams at Brokaw and Merrill failed on th...

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