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| Date: | 05 1950 |
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| Description: | A commuter train of the Milwaukee, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad, with the tower of Milwaukee's Union Station in the background. The Milwaukee, North Sh... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View towards platform of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway depot. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Passengers look out the window aboard the Rapid City, Black Hills and Western Railroad of South Dakota. The rail car is powered by an International PA-100 ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Rail car passing over the Harrison Street viaduct on the Wingra Park line. The line served the growing suburbs of University Heights, Oakland Heights, and ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Chippewa Falls from the south side of the river below the falls. Includes the Sheely House Tavern, railway buildings, box cars, a train with five passenger... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a train arriving at the station. The train station is full of people and there is a horse-drawn carriage next to the building. |
| Date: | 07 31 1944 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Goodland and Mrs. Goodland board the train for the Republican Governors conference in St. Louis. The meeting was called by Thomas E. Dewey,... |
| Date: | 03 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Corporal William (Bill) Lovelace, 319 North Blair Street, returning home after spending one year hiding from the Japanese and two years in a Japanese priso... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A day passenger train crossing the high North Western railroad bridge over the Chippewa River. Railroad tracks are along the shoreline in the foreground. |
| Date: | 10 20 1946 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Lake Park streetcar terminal. There is a streetcar in the station with engineers standing in front. |
| Date: | 10 27 1923 |
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| Description: | A driver sits in an International Model G or 61 truck fitted with railway gears and wheels for the Ozark-Southern Railway Company. |
| Date: | 08 26 1948 |
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| Description: | Lyle T. Beggs, standing on the steps of a Milwaukee Road train, as he is about to leave for VFW camp where he is expected to be elected national commander ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Chicago & Northwestern Railway Passenger Station, which was at the end of Wisconsin Avenue. The station has a clock tower and an arched entrance. On the b... |
| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Bishop William P. O'Connor of the Madison Catholic diocese as he boards a Chicago-bound train on the first leg of his trip to Rome, where he will report to... |
| Date: | 05 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Chicago delegation to the Prayer Pilgrimmage for Freedom in Washington, D.C. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting the national parks of the western United States and Canada, as well as promoting train travel. The poster depicts a creek... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the Pacific Railway's route from New York to California, encouraging people to "Go and See the Great American Pa... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An original color lithograph promoting the Union Pacific Railway Streamliner, and the "City of Denver." In the artist's depiction, a yellow Union Pacific p... |
| Date: | 11 15 1918 |
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| Description: | Long time-silent film actress, most notably for Vitagraph and Metro Pictures, Edith Storey, wearing a fox stole, waves good-bye from the platform at the ba... |
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