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| Date: | 11 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Charles Thiede, 2218 Rusk Street, is shown with his crew members before his last round-trip to Chicago. He is retiring after 41 years with the Chicago Nort... |
| Date: | 10 07 1948 |
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| Description: | People involved in the Earl Warren United States vice-presidential campaign standing in front of the campaign train shortly after its arrival at the railro... |
| Date: | 12 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Roundy's Fun Fund and the Milwaukee Road provided forty children from the remedial department of the Madison public schools with their first train ride to ... |
| Date: | 02 09 1949 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Madison, looking east across the Isthmus including the Wisconsin State Capitol, Lake Mendota, and Lake Monona. |
| 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 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Four women who attended the dessert bridge party given by the Milwaukee Railroad Women's Club for the Northwestern Railroad Women's Club at Manchester's Ma... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The West Madison Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad station, with train cars on the tracks. |
| Date: | 05 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Thirty-six Verona first and second grade pupils rode the Chicago and North Western train from Verona to Madison, for twenty-two it was a first train ride. ... |
| Date: | 08 18 1949 |
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| Description: | A weedburner of the Illinois Central Railway in action burns ragweed along railroad tracks. The weedburner is a self-propelled unit equipped with an oil-bu... |
| Date: | 10 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Five members of the Madison Division No. 32 of the Benefit Association of Railway Employees, who were awarded gold buttons for having been in the associati... |
| Date: | 03 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Walter S. Alcumbrac, Madison superintendent of the Madison division of the Chicago and North Western Railway Company, (right) receives a plaque for the bes... |
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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: | 10 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Display illustrating the Highway Department's plan for separating highway traffic on Highways 13 and 14 (the Oregon Road) and Highway 12 (the new South Mad... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd gathered to welcome the 1st Regiment home from the Spanish-American war. |
| Date: | 01 25 1951 |
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| Description: | Crates of oranges, some damaged, are stacked in a storage area after being unloaded from an Illinois Central Railroad car. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A hydrographic map of Lake Monona and the adjacent topography. |
| Date: | 03 19 1952 |
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| Description: | Three men are shown with two awards commemorating North Western railroad safety. P.E. Feucht, executive vice-president (center), presented the Madison divi... |
| Date: | 05 16 1952 |
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| Description: | William "Bill" Hellman, chef on the Northwestern Railroad's Madison-Chicago passenger run, on the train as he is preparing his last meal for the railroad a... |
| Date: | 09 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the guests of honor at the annual fall luncheon of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Woman's Club. The guests of honor were eleven ch... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn topographical map of the Turville Estate. |
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