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| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Kilbourn Bridge at the Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. A locomotive is pulling railroad cars over the bridge. |
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| Description: | View from train platform looking back toward Johnson Creek businesses and houses. Railroad cars are on the left, and a set of railroad tracks are on the ri... |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The Chicago and Northwestern Railway depot. Caption reads: "C. & N. W. Depot, Kenosha, Wis." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of railroad trains and cars parked in a railroad yard. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad station looking west. A bridge over the river is in the foreground, and a large water tower is across the railroad tracks on ... |
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| Description: | View across water toward a railroad train and locomotive on a ferry going across the Mississippi River near New Orleans. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | View of the Rock River with a train on a railroad bridge in the foreground, and the town in the distance. Pedestrians are walking along a path on the left ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Railroad depot with train approaching the station. Caption reads: "Depot Scene, Stanley, Wis." |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a railroad station and yards. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the town from a boxcar. A railroad train is headed towards a bridge over the lake. Caption reads: The ideal fishing resort of the One Thou... |
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| Description: | Lantern slide illustration of a sawmill(?) in 1863 near a railroad line with a steam train approaching. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | "Gee Whizz! Clear the track. McCormick trains are everywhere." Advertising poster describing the worldwide success of McCormick harvesting machines. Featu... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Unprotected railroad crossings were a particular hazard for automobiles as this 1923 poster issued by the American Railroad Association dramatically points... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway locomotive no. 186, a class G-5 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1892, on service on the La Crosse Division... |
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| Description: | Powerhouse for the city electric utility with a tail race below, a man standing on the left of the powerhouse, and a train in the left background |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | View of crossroads where the street meets the railroad tracks. Adults and children are standing to the left next to a train. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Construction of a dam visible from behind a railroad bridge. A train is crossing the bridge. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Clockwise from upper left images include: Cutters Point, Long Lake, Wis.; M.E. Church, New Auburn, Wis.; Farmers Store, New Auburn, Wis.; Public School, Ne... |
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