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| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 03 29 1958 |
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| Description: | A young boy rings a locomotive bell. Other artifacts of locomotive history are on the table before him with members of the Milwaukee chapter of the Nationa... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad locomotive #1100, a class I engine, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1873 and originally numbered #199. Th... |
| Date: | 10 30 1989 |
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| Description: | Tommy G. Thompson, governor of Wisconsin and an enthusiastic member of the Amtrak governing board, salutes the expansion of Hiawatha service between Chicag... |
| Date: | 10 1983 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Road freight car repair shop at 3301 West Canal Street. |
| Date: | 10 1983 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Road sheetmetal shop, formerly formerly known as the car paint and repair shop, located at 3301 West Canal Street. |
| Date: | 10 1983 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Road Shops interior sheetmetal shop, formerly the car paint and repair shop, at 3301 West Canal Street. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man (maybe a railroad worker or a tramp) standing along a railroad track next to a small cooking fire. Railroad cars are in the background. |
| Date: | 05 30 1914 |
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| Description: | Juneau Park looking north from approximately E. Mason Street, with the Chicago and North Western railroad tracks on the right. The Lake Michigan shoreline ... |
| Date: | 03 09 1927 |
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| Description: | A train carrying tractors stopped on its way from Milwaukee Works (factory). |
| Date: | 03 02 1956 |
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| Description: | A seamless pipe fitting sits atop a railroad car, ready to be shipped. Later purchased and used by Elmes & Kings. Original Falk caption reads: "14' high-78... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Located in West Milwaukee. View from atop a building of a large building located in the center, next to a smokestack. In the foreground is part of a round... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Located in West Milwaukee. Trains, cars, tracks, and railroad buildings. The view is taken from the top of a building. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | West Milwaukee. Elevated view of tracks, trains, and buildings. A train roundhouse is located in the background. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of West Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad. Railroad train cars are stopped on the tracks and smoke is rising fr... |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Young worker operates a large lever on railroad tracks. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers bel... |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Worker reads union newspaper while sitting on a bunk and smoking a cigar. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries.... |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers shoveling coal into furnace. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the Nation... |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers' toilet. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the National Maritime Union (N... |
| Date: | 01 01 1940 |
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| Description: | Engine #934 of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. |
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