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| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of city traffic of bumper-to-bumper cars leaving Milwaukee County Stadium after the 1957 World Series. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Two women standing on path in front of the Garver Feed Mill, which was originally a sugar beet processing factory. |
| Date: | 10 10 1939 |
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| Description: | Railroad crossing, also showing the main street and the train depot. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Green Bay & Western Railroad roundhouse. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of people standing in front of a Soo Line freight car that was used by the railroad to promote hog transportation. This photograph was donated to the... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #10, the "Hiawatha," built by the company shop in Milwaukee. There are houses in the far background along a ri... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View down platform towards the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad. A box car of the Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad is sitting on a rail s... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Madison-Kipp Company during winter with a railroad car parked in front. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Atlas Mill. The paper making mill on the Fox River was built in 1878 and proved that paper could be made efficiently from gro... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Soo Line Depot, Ashland, Wis." It was built in 1890 of brownstone in the Richardson Romanesque style. Pedestrians stand on the platform of ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of town, with several large buildings along railroad tracks in the foreground, and fields and trees in the distance. Pedestrians are walking al... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the dam and the mill, with some trees in the foreground. A railroad bridge is in the background on the left, and a rail cart or truck is d... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view above railroad cars towards downtown Elroy. Caption reads: "Partial View Elroy Wis." |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Standard Oil Company's bulk plant on North Broadway Street with trains and tracks, and a train station. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards the front of the cottage. Train cars are in the background. On the original site on the west side of the Fox River, before restora... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from the top of a railroad car on railroad tracks along the Mississippi River shoreline. Ships are along the shoreline on the right, and railroad trac... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks, with the Mississippi River on the left, and on the right the J.J. Hogan Wholesale Company. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | J.J. Hogan Wholesale Company on the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over the Mississippi River towards the waterfront in La Crosse. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Northwestern railroad depot with a train approaching the station. Caption reads: "Northwestern Depot, Waunakee, Wis." |
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