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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of ships tied up for the winter in slips. |
| 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: | 03 20 1956 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad cars laying across and around railroad tracks while workers look on and contemplate how to clean up the massive mess caused by th... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "The St. Cloud district sales organization looks over the 29-car trainload of McCormick harvester-threshers bound for 47 dealers wh... |
| Date: | 08 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Madison Gas & Electric Company Steam Turbine Station and Substation, 115 South Blount Street, view from South Livingston Street. |
| Date: | 03 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Hansen Storage of Madison, warehouse, 2302 Darwin Road, showing railroad siding and truck dock. |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman greets a crowd from the back platform of a NorthWestern train at the Commercial Ave. crossing. Others with him from the left are... |
| Date: | 01 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Six people are standing in front of a railroad car with a Duncan Hines advertisement on the side, two boxes of cake mix and a large cake with the sign: "An... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of the downtown section. |
| 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: | 10 03 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., seated together in the Eisenhower Presidential campaign train dining car. |
| Date: | 10 03 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy waves to the crowd who had come to see him introduce Presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower. On the train with him is John By... |
| Date: | 10 03 1952 |
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| Description: | Presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower and Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy together on the rear car of the "Eisenhower Special." The location of thi... |
| 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women load wooden crates onto a boxcar at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). |
| Date: | 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Train cars are parked near a tall building with a fire escape. |
| Date: | 09 19 1952 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Dwight D. Eisenhower addressing a huge crowd from a train platform during his "Whistle-stop" election drive. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man drives an International L-180 truck outfitted with a North American Van Lines Inc. trailer down a road next to a railroad track. Train cars, a buildi... |
| Date: | 08 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Five Naval Reserve recruits in uniform pose for a group portrait at the Milwaukee Road railroad station. Left to right: David L. Larson, 1235 Darmouth Road... |
| Date: | 08 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Two Madison sisters board a train to travel to out-of-state colleges. Mary Clare Koltes, left, is transfering from the University of Wisconsin to Rollins C... |
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