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Milwaukee Road Booth at U.S.O. Carnival

Date: 11 07 1944
Description: Booth at the U.S.O. Carnival sponsered by the Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club, featuring games of chance and a model train set-up.
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Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club Committee

Date: 11 07 1944
Description: Group portrait of the Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club Committee standing in front of bandstand with musicians. Patriotic decorations provided by the ...
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Model at Train Station

Date: 08 13 1940
Description: Manchesters Department Store model, wearing fur jacket hat and purse, posing with the conductor who is holding her luggage on the steps of a passenger trai...
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Milwaukee Road Service Club

Date: 01 25 1947
Description: Milwaukee Road Service Club officers greeting superintendent at party given at Nakoma Country Club, with Milwaukee Road Service Club sign and banner and Va...
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Milwaukee Road Service Club

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Group portrait of the Milwaukee Road Service Club party, VFW Hall, 113-115 East Mifflin Street, alternate view.
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Milwaukee Road Service Club

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Milwaukee Road Service Club, with four men on stage with a banner along the front that reads: "Milwaukee Road Service Club." VFW Hall, 113-115 E. Mifflin S...
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The Milwaukee Road Centennial Float

Date: 05 29 1948
Description: Milwaukee Road float for the Wisconsin Centennial Parade, "Wisconsin's First Railroad," with women on the float and eleven workers standing in front of the...
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Man along Railroad Tracks

Date: 1940
Description: A man (maybe a railroad worker or a tramp) standing along a railroad track next to a small cooking fire. Railroad cars are in the background.
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Michael G. O'Neill

Date: 03 01 1944
Description: Michael G. O'Neill sitting in a chair with a railroad lantern. He lived at 526 West Wilson Street and worked 40 years for the Milwaukee Road.
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Harry G. Marsh

Date: 11 04 1944
Description: Harry G. Marsh, passenger agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, seated at his desk. Mr. Marsh was responsible for troop movements to and from Trua...
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Chicago, MIlwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Party

Date: 01 24 1945
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroad party showing thirteen men seated and standing with a display of flags and an emblem.
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Priest and Railroad Worker Next to Locomotive

Date: 07 24 1945
Description: A priest (Father Aloin R. Kutchera from St. Paul's University Chapel?) with a railroad worker standing next to a locomotive.
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Queen of America's Dairyland

Date: 10 20 1946
Description: Betty Gene Gardner, Ridgeway, who was chosen Queen of America's Dairyland at the 1946 Wisconsin State Fair, is shown boarding a train for the Dairy Industr...
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Railroad Man, Alfred F. Kniebusch

Date: 11 01 1946
Description: Alfred F. Kniebusch being honored for his 54 years of service with the North Western railroad. Also shown, left to right, are H.W. Blum, transportation man...
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Robert E. Guild

Date: 02 19 1947
Description: Robert E. Guild, Madison native, Milwaukee Railroad engineer, and Holyoke, Colorado, movie theater operator from 1916 to 1939.
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Train and Truck Accident

Date: 03 27 1947
Description: Police and trainmen for the Northwestern Railroad removing the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Thompson (Alice) from their truck, which collided with a N...
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Men Laying Rails at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face.
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Illinois Central Railroad Tracks

Date: 09 05 1947
Description: The train engineer's view (looking east) of the Illinois Central Railroad crossing at Regent Street, Breeze Terrace, and Little Street, taken one-hundred f...
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Charles H. Thiede

Date: 11 29 1947
Description: Portrait of Charles H. Thiede, 2218 Rusk Street, at the controls of a Chicago North Western Railroad steam engine as he starts his last run to Chicago afte...
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Railroad Engineer Charles Thiede with Crew

Date: 11 29 1947
Description: Charles Thiede, 2218 Rusk Street, is shown with his crew members before his last round-trip to Chicago. He is retiring after 41 years with the Chicago Nort...

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