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| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View from railroad tracks through covered railroad tunnel in hill. A sign on a telephone pole on the right reads: "Private Property / Thoroughfare / Keep O... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Railroad depot taken as part of a survey by the Wisconsin Power and Light Company to promote economic development by emphasizing available buildings and bu... |
| Date: | 09 17 1931 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the Elver House, later the Wilson Hotel, on East Wilson Street. |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the Kilbourn railroad depot, with the Park Hotel in the background. There is a water tower on the left next to the depo... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr... |
| Date: | 09 21 1914 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men posing while standing and sitting on two small flat cars linked to each other. One of the cars is loaded with lumber. Another set of ... |
| Date: | 11 12 1936 |
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| Description: | Chicago & Northwestern Railroad tracks, looking east at the crossing of S. Blair Street, King Street, E. Wilson Street, and Williamson Street. Included in ... |
| Date: | 04 17 1934 |
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| Description: | View across street towards two new tanks being delivered by the Heil Co. of Milwaukee on a Heil Company truck. The truck is parked in front of the Fauerbac... |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | People watching railroad workers attempting to extricate the bodies of three men who died under the wheels of the Milwaukee Road passenger train locomotive... |
| Date: | 07 11 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a Texaco bulk station and storage tanks from across the railroad tracks at 919 E. Main Street. |
| Date: | 09 25 1929 |
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| Description: | Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, looking towards a chain link fence and gate surrounding the plant. R... |
| Date: | 10 09 1929 |
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| Description: | A Chicago & North Western Railroad Bucyrus crane installing a large tank at a Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Company Pyrofax plant, at 130 Fair Oaks Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 06 1929 |
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| Description: | Texas Company U.S.A. (Texaco) office building and storage tanks bulk plant, 919 E. Main Street. Text on print reads: "Texas Company, Capitol Oil Co." |
| Date: | 04 14 1948 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of cart loads of mail sacks on the platform, awaiting the arrival of the next train. The four men standing on the left have bee... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A group of men and boys posed around Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive # 313, a switch engine. The Fox House is in the background. |
| Date: | 04 22 1965 |
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| Description: | A panoramic view of the Mississippi River flooding during the spring, showing the dykes built along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad tracks at Sec... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction of new streetcar tracks on the Capitol Square. In the background, on the corner of Main and Carroll streets, is the Park Hotel. Behind the hot... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the railroad curve near Whitefish Bay resort. Caption reads: "The Curve near Whitefish Bay Resort." |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Cliff House, a resort hotel built shortly after 1872 when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. Three-story frame house with balcony on each floor. There is a ... |
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