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| Date: | 12 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Bertha Middleton greeting her brother Myron Becker at the Milwaukee Road railway station on Franklin Street. The siblings had not seen each other for 23 y... |
| Date: | 01 11 1948 |
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| Description: | The remains of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arlington in Columbia Cou... |
| Date: | 01 11 1948 |
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| Description: | The remains of the boiler tank of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arling... |
| Date: | 04 21 1928 |
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| Description: | Men, most likely International Harvester dealers, and trucks gathered around a railroad boxcar with opened doors. The boxcar and a truck are adorned with p... |
| Date: | 08 08 1944 |
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| Description: | A shipment of tractor-mounted cotton pickers loaded on railroad flat cars near a factory(?) building. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Train depot with a boy standing between the building and the railroad tracks. There are two doors marked "Men" and "Women". Four men can be seen on the rig... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. |
| 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: | 1934 |
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| Description: | E.S. Marnon, I-12 salesman at the Howard-Cooper Corporation, rides a McCormick-Deering tractor. The Howard-Cooper Corporation was likely an International H... |
| Date: | 02 28 1935 |
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| Description: | Railroad cars and tracks at the North Pier River Barge Terminal at or near the McCormick Works (factory). |
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| Description: | A wintery view of the Southern Wisconsin Railway Company car barn. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over crowd of people towards a man standing on a platform, possibly Cyrus McCormick III. He is speaking to a large group of people gathered o... |
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| Description: | An exterior view of the United States Sugar Beet Company, located on Atwood Avenue. |
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