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| Date: | 10 15 1934 |
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| Description: | Babe Ruth, wearing a dressing gown, signing autographs from a train car during a stopover in Madison. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of ships tied up for the winter in slips. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of a locomotive arriving at the Barnum Depot. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of a man and a dog posing on the platform in front of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul depot. In the background on the left... |
| Date: | 12 11 1926 |
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| Description: | Fire destroyed the Atlas Flour Mill, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Thirteen engine companies, six truck companies, and two fire boats fought the... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two workers filling a railroad cooling car with ice from an International truck at a railroad yard. |
| 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: | 09 21 1914 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men posing while standing and sitting on two small flat cars linked to each other. One of the cars is loaded with lumber. Another set of ... |
| Date: | 12 26 1935 |
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| Description: | Worker on an International I-30 industrial tractor used for "spotting" freight cars around the Miller Brewing Company. Two refrigerated rail cars are parke... |
| Date: | 04 21 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Commercial Club Band posing at a rail yard with a newly arrived shipment of McCormick-Deering ball-bearing cream separators. The cream... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Small carts, stacks of lumber, and rail cars in a snow-covered yard at the McCormick Reaper Works. The original caption reads: "Foundry #28, Wheel Room, Bl... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a boat called "The Imperial" moored along the dock at the McCormick Reaper Works. The boat is loaded with freight. In the backgro... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers loading and unloading wood at the wood stock yard of the McCormick Reaper Works. Men are working on both sides of the Chicago River. Rail cars and ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | McCormick Reaper Works and rail yard as seen from across a canal. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company until 1902 when it beca... |
| 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: | 04 05 1919 |
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| Description: | Men working on a hillside retaining wall to "P tipple" of no. 2 mine. Railroad tracks and houses are below in the distance. Benham was a "company town" cre... |
| Date: | 03 19 1919 |
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| Description: | Small steam engine hauling empty cars over a bridge along a narrow gauge railroad track. Houses in a residential neighborhood are in the background. The tr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Southwest panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works factory and rail yard as seen across a canal. Workers can be seen unloading wood. |
| Date: | 06 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad car on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, car number URTX 5393. The Oscar Mayer rail yard is in the ... |
| Date: | 06 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the top of an Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad car, Chicago & Northwestern #URTX 5365 with a view of the Oscar Mayer rail yards. There is... |
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