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| Description: | The Milwaukee Merchants & Manufacturers Special Train. A steam engine with several cars stretching to the horizon is sitting on the tracks in front of a pl... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A group of men carrying lunch boxes are walking away from a steam engine train, which is near another train and power lines. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Two men escorting a fashionably dressed woman with a feathered boa obscuring part of her face. People are standing in the background near a train next to t... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad yards with trains sitting on many of the tracks, with other tracks sitting empty. Steam is rising from trains in the background, ... |
| Date: | 01 18 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad yard, with engines and cars on some of the tracks. Smoke is billowing out from many of the engines, covering much of the yard. Bu... |
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| Description: | Front view of three trains in a snow-filled train yard. The middle train is an old-fashioned steam engine flanked by more modern trains. Three men are stan... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man in a suit and hat is standing on the side of a train engine in a train yard. Railroad employees can be seen in and on the train, and a group of men a... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a cluster of old dwellings in the center, with broken shacks and rusted cars. In the background are railroad cars, and an industrial area ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Train full of Polish refugees. Photograph taken by Louis Koplin during the time he worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; near the Ge... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a refugee child, Milo Weinschenker, wearing sunglasses. He is standing next to a train, as he and his family were about to leave Germany to sai... |
| Date: | 02 13 1949 |
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| Description: | French representatives arrived in Madison aboard the French Gratitude Train (Merci Train) and were welcomed at the Northwestern Depot by the governor and h... |
| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Preparing to depart by train for the forthcoming NCAA boxing meet are University of Wisconsin national boxing team defending champions and their coaching s... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A train carries McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) bouind for North Dakota farms. A sign on the train reads: "McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thr... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Central Railroad locomotive with Engine #42 hauling lumber from Antigo Lumber Company. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Men unload rail cars for the "World of Mirth Shows," an American traveling carnival with rides and a sideshow. International ID-6 diesel wheel tractors ass... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man hangs on to the side of a train from a ladder and waves his hand. Original caption reads: "Giving his engineer the 'highball' upon arrival of the 25-... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A shipment of sisal leaves at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "A train load of sisal leaves coming into t... |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Men working on relief tractors on a flatbed railroad car for delivery to "tri-state tornado" victims. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad locomotive no. 1, the Menomonee at a station with four people standing nearby. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Sheet music cover for the song "North Western Railway Polka." Images on the page include two trains, two soldiers, and a crowd in a ballroom. |
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