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Oscar Mayer Refrigerated Railroad Car

Date: 06 22 1943
Description: Elevated view of an Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad car on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, car number URTX 5393. The Oscar Mayer rail yard is in the ...
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Oscar Mayer Refrigerated Rail Car

Date: 06 22 1943
Description: Elevated view of the top of an Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad car, Chicago & Northwestern #URTX 5365 with a view of the Oscar Mayer rail yards. There is...
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Oscar Mayer Refrigerated Rail Car

Date: 06 22 1943
Description: Elevated view of Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad car, Chicago & Northwestern #URTX 5374, with view of Oscar Mayer railroad yards.
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Railroad Tracks at Oscar Mayer Plant

Date: 06 22 1943
Description: Railroad tracks at Oscar Mayer plant. There is a railroad car on another set of tracks on the left.
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Aerial View of Oscar Mayer Plant

Date: 1942
Description: Aerial view of Oscar Mayer & Company, 910 Mayer Avenue at Packers Avenue. Shows stock yards, railroad cars and automobile parking lot. Also shows C.E. & P....
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Fauerbach Freight Cars

Date: 07 17 1934
Description: Two railroad freight cars with Fauerbach Beer signs covering their sides are parked outdoors on railroad tracks in a railroad yard.
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Water Street

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Description: View of Water Street. Railroad tracks run along the river and split in the distance. A girl looks out at a steamboat that is visible in the river to the ri...
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Great Northern Railroad Cars

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Description: Loading Great Northern Railroad cars at the Rugby Milling Co.
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Railroad Yards

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Description: Elevated view of rows of railroad cars can be seen lined up on the tracks outside Minot Flour Mill Company, founded in 1903.
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Depot and Yards

Date: 1911
Description: A view of the depot and yards. A windmill and water tower in the distance. Carts with sacks of flour and milk cans next to the depot. Signs for Western Uni...
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Elevated View of Railroad Depot

Date: 08 1902
Description: Elevated view of the railroad depot taken from the wooden shake roof of a building. On the right are railroad tracks, depot buildings, grain storage and a ...
Postcard

Rear of Plant

Date: 1920
Description: Postcard with of two views for the Cudahy Bros. Meat Packing Co. The top is of a billboard with a peacock in a tree, and the words: "The Home of the Peaco...
Postcard

Buildings and Depot Signs Panorama

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Description: Panoramic photographic postcard view of a railroad depot, with assorted buildings, with barrels on the top of the roofs. Signs on sawhorses on the left rea...

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