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| Description: | View over a train stopped at a grain elevator in the foreground. The Hotel Ristau is across a street on the left, and a church building is in the distance ... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company. There is an engraving of a train and a list of the officers of the company. |
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| Description: | Two men loading boxes of batteries onto railroad cars with a conveyor belt. French Battery later became Ray-O-Vac Corporation. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | The official railroad map of Wisconsin showing railroad lines throughout the state. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | The official railroad map of Wisconsin showing railroad lines throughout the state. |
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| Description: | View of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Bridge spanning the Columbia River, connecting Vancouver, Washington, with Portland, Oregon. Caption read... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the camp and valley of the site of the Elephant Butte Dam near Truth or Consequences. There are buildings, roads, railroad tracks, and tra... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Cripple Creek Short Line Railroad and a train winding through the mountains. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Derby Diversion Dam with a crowd gathered on the rim of the dam and individuals standing along its top. A train cuts across the horizon in... |
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| Description: | View of Rock Island Pond, with a telephone pole in the foreground, and railroad tracks leading off into the distance. In the distance is a farm or manufact... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the two steamships, including the James T. Brett, on the Hudson River, with the central business district of the city in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an Oriental Limited train crossing The Stone Arch Bridge over a river. The bridge was built by The Great Northern Railway in 1883. There i... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad shipping yards of the Idaho and Washington Northern Railway. Included in the image are numerous buildings, workers, trees, an... |
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| Description: | Elevated distant view of the town of Medicine Hat, Alberta and a Canadian Pacific Railway Bridge. Caption reads: "General View of Medicine Hat, Alta. Showi... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Washington Bridge, crossing over numerous railroad tracks. In the foreground is a train engine, dwellings, and a dilapidated brick str... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the city, which includes a factory, numerous buildings, railroad tracks, a bridge, Elizabeth river, and hills in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of city, including miners' homes set in the hills, and in the foreground railroad tracks and numerous cars parked along the street in front o... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an oil field. In the foreground is a railroad train, and numerous shacks. |
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| Description: | Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric lines hang over the street. Sign in window reads: "J.B. Thompson Lawyer." |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | A map showing railroad land in Chippewa Valley. |
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