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| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Front cover and first page of a menu from a railroad dining car, with a woman in long robes carrying a tray with a steaming dish of food. A border of fruit... |
| Date: | 08 17 1917 |
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| Description: | Large crowd of people gathered at the train station to see off Company D of the 5th Wisconsin National Guard Infantry. The soldiers, some leaning out of th... |
| Date: | 11 06 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior of dinner menu for Special Train enroute from St. Louis, Missouri, to Brownsville, Texas, with an oval portrait of President-Elect Warren G. Hardi... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the depot and train with passengers on the platform. A large windmill is in the background. Caption reads: "C. M. & St. P. De... |
| Date: | 07 22 1907 |
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| Description: | Caption on bottom right reads: "Wash Out on H.&N.E RY. July 22, 07." View down three sets of damaged railroad tracks towards men standing near a passenger ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards passengers, a large group of men and one young girl, waiting on the platform at the train station for the train to arri... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Eight men and one dog lean their heads outside of the windows of a passenger car caboose of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railway for a group portra... |
| Date: | 04 30 1909 |
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| Description: | Newspaper clipping of prospective parents looking up at children in the windows of the orphan train. The caption reads: "The Arrival of the Babies." |
| Date: | 12 05 1964 |
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| Description: | The Santa Express Train went from Madison to Stoughton and back, with 6,000 children. This view shows some of the enthusiastic parents going along. The man... |
| Date: | 12 05 1964 |
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| Description: | The Santa Express Train took 6,000 children from Madison to Stoughton and back. Shown greeting Santa is Scott Cameron (with freckles) in center, with othe... |
| Date: | 12 05 1964 |
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| Description: | Santa Claus is shown in the aisle of the Santa Express Train shaking many hands extended in this double decker train car, one of eight cars from the Milwau... |
| Date: | 12 05 1964 |
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| Description: | View of a child sitting in a seat, who is one of 6,000 children riding the Santa Express Train from Madison to Stoughton and back, is shown being greeted b... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view down railroad tracks toward the substation. An interurban car is on the railroad tracks, and a group of passengers are on the platform. C... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a train on the tracks, several people on the platform, a boy standing with a bicycle, and a horse and carriage parked behind ... |
| Date: | 10 27 1923 |
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| Description: | View of a railway car on railroad tracks. Automobiles are parked behind it on the far right. There is a man in the driver's seat of the railway car, and pa... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of steam trains and railroad cars on the North Freedom Railroad at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum. Cars are in the parking lot on the right... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View towards the Lake Mills Railroad Depot. A passenger train is on the tracks on the left. A light rail trolley is on the sharply curving tracks on the ri... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul passenger cars stopped behind a group of men and boys standing in the foreground. Caption reads: "Lake Waubesa Statio... |
| Date: | 08 16 1954 |
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| Description: | Sitting on the train and ready for a trip to the nation's capitol are Madison Newspapers, Inc. newsboys, Gerald Schroeder (left) and Billy Adelman (both of... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View from road towards the Mayville train depot, with a passenger train on the left set of two railroad tracks. Caption reads: "C.M. & St. Paul Depot, Mayv... |
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