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| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | 1904 Exhibit of the Maryland Association for the Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis, in a railway coach. Photograph taken in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers leaving the Kissell Motor Car Company have their identification badges checked. The Hartford company was then building trucks of the Four Wheel Dr... |
| Date: | 08 07 1929 |
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| Description: | A line of fifty "Bradford Cabs" manufactured by the Kissel Motor Car Company of Hartford, Wisconsin. Caption reads: "'Bradford Cabs' built by the Kissel Mo... |
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| Description: | Shops under construction for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railroad lines. Men are working with a horse-drawn wagon in the right foreground... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Special train from Spooner, Wisconsin, to Union Meeting at St. Paul, Minnesota. Group portrait of men posing on and around the locomotive. A young girl is ... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being lo... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of mining operations. Caption reads: "'A Busy Corner' of Platteville." |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | During his campaign for re-election to the Senate, Senator Gaylord Nelson revived an old campaign tradition by campaigning from the back of a train. At th... |
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| Description: | Photomontage of two giant heads of lettuce/cabbage resting on a flatbed railroad car. The side of the car is imprinted with, "L.S. & M.S. 26 D23," showing... |
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| Description: | Two men standing on top of a snow-covered railroad car. The top of the steam locomotive is the only area visible of the train. Photograph reads, "On the Ma... |
| Date: | 03 02 1956 |
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| Description: | A seamless pipe fitting sits atop a railroad car, ready to be shipped. Later purchased and used by Elmes & Kings. Original Falk caption reads: "14' high-78... |
| Date: | 10 28 1966 |
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| Description: | Mill drive that was later purchased by Traylor Engineering and used by Hudson Cement. Original Falk caption reads, "See engineering files for exact descrip... |
| Date: | 10 29 1968 |
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| Description: | Mill drive purchased by Allis Chalmers and used by Duval. Original Falk caption reads, "260 inch x 34 inch single helical split ring gear... part of a phot... |
| Date: | 07 24 1971 |
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| Description: | Slewing drive that was purchased by the Dravo Corporation. Original Falk caption reads, "Slewing Drive-2 parts-(1) 19 feet 5 inches O.D. x 6 1/2 inch wide ... |
| Date: | 09 08 1971 |
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| Description: | This 2 pinion gear was purchased by the Fairbanks Morse Division of the Colt Industry and used by United States Steel. Falk caption reads, "Main propulsion... |
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| Description: | A wintery view of the Southern Wisconsin Railway Company car barn. |
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| Description: | An exterior view of the United States Sugar Beet Company, located on Atwood Avenue. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of industrial buildings identified as smelting furnaces. A railroad train and railroad track runs the length of the foreground of the image a... |
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| Description: | Members of the South Alabama Fertilizer Coop loading bags of fertilizer into a train car. |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Lumber yard with boxcars and factory buildings in the back. Made while factory was under protection of the State Militia during the first general labor str... |
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