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Railroad Shops Under Construction

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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...
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Railroad Depot

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Description: Men approaching a train at the railroad depot carrying farm machinery from the J.I. Case Company.
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Typical Wisconsin Waterpower Paper Mill

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Description: The Menominee River and paper mill as photographed by William A. Hotchkiss for the Wisconsin Good Roads Association.
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Dewey Presidential Campaign Train

Date: 1944
Description: Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the Republican Party presidential candidate aboard the campaign train, making a stop in Baraboo.
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Horse-Drawn Sleighs at Railroad Station

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Description: Loaded sleighs and wagons approaching the railroad station. Railroad cars are along the left.
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Speaker at Railroad Station

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Description: Crowd at railroad station listening to a whistle-stop speaker standing on the back of a caboose. Probably William McKinley.
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Special Railroad Train

Date: 1904
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 ...
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Crowd at Railroad Station

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Description: Crowd at station listening to a whistle-stop speaker at a railroad station, possibly Taft.
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Woman and Child near Bridge

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Description: Woman and child standing in the shadows among the rocks and logs along the river as a freight train crosses the elevated bridge above.
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Swift Strikers

Date: 1959
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...
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Group of People at Railroad Station

Date: 1898
Description: Group of people looking at single car at the railroad station, probably a special car for a traveling minstrel show.
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Cream Separator Arrival Celebration

Date: 04 21 1927
Description: Elevated view of a marching band posing in front of trucks loaded with International Harvester cream separators, recently arrived by train.
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Tractor Transport

Date: 1937
Description: Men load I-12 tractors onto a train at International Harvester's Neuss Works in Germany.
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Tall-tale Postcard: Background with Men on Ramp

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard. Two men walk up a ramp leading into a railroad car. Both men are pushing large i...
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Rocket Oil Company Fuel Storage Tanks

Date: 10 10 1946
Description: Rocket Oil Company fuel storage tanks at the bulk plant at 204 South Paterson Street. In the foreground is a man on a modern Rocket Oil company truck fill...
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Chicago River near McCormick Works

Date: 1910
Description: Chicago River near International Harvester's McCormick Works (factory). A sailboat, water tower, railroad cars and many industrial buildings line the shore...
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Whistle Stop Revivial

Date: 1968
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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Thresher Transport

Date: 05 23 1925
Description: A train transports McCormick-Deering All-Steel threshers from International Harvester's Plano Works. The factory was later known as "West Pullman Works."
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Springfield Works

Date: 1933
Description: Elevated view of International Harvester's Springfield Works (factory) with railroad tracks in the foreground.
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Croix Works

Date: 05 28 1923
Description: Elevated view of the buildings of International Harvester's Croix Works (factory) and the accompanying transport railway. Croix was located in France.

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