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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville... |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi; The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad bridge across the Vermillion River. A CM&SP train is crossing the bridge. Two men are posin... |
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| Description: | Bridge over river with railroad train. "Apollo No. 1" steamboat under bridge. Boats are along the shoreline. |
| Date: | 05 10 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging in a muddy trench near bridge no. 1, mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisc... |
| Date: | 05 19 1933 |
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| Description: | Flooded Park Street viaduct, with a railroad train on tracks above the viaduct. There is a car in the water under the viaduct, and a man is standing on the... |
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| Description: | A Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway bridge under construction. |
| Date: | 06 1862 |
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| Description: | First train crossing the Obion River, Tennessee, on the Ohio and Mobile Railroad on a bridge built by the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers. Watercolor by John Ga... |
| Date: | 09 03 1912 |
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| Description: | An experimental reaper(?) in a factory yard. There is a Russian name on the Reaper, and the front is set up on saw-horses. Men are working near a brick fac... |
| Date: | 09 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Forms have been removed from the first concrete poured for the power house in the northeast corner of the coffer dam. Men are pouring concrete from rail ca... |
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| Description: | View from below of wood burning locomotive and single car on elevated railroad bridge and approach trestle, somewhere along the upper Mississippi River. La... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The "J.C. Ames," a Lake Michigan car ferry, probably in the South Chicago harbor. There is a railroad bridge visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Illinois Central Railroad Station, from a bridge crossing over the tracks, built in 1918. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a passenger train on a railroad bridge over a river. Men are standing on the bridge in front of the locomotive. There is snow on the... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of York Iron Works with a view of the blast furnace and pig iron stock piles. The boardinghouse is visible on the hill in the far background. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a work train on railroad tracks on a railroad bridge, over a river, that is under construction. Several workmen are standing and posing on... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several workmen standing on a platform near the shoreline of the Wisconsin River during construction of a railroad bridge. There is a work... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of four men standing with ore carts. Two more men are standing on the left near a pile of square timbers, and another man is standing on the ri... |
| Date: | 11 11 1911 |
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| Description: | Men, some wearing suits, and other work clothes, are standing around a building under construction. There are railroad cars on a bridge on the left. |
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