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Lumber Camp

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Description: Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs.
Manuscript

Scrapbook Page - Bridge and Canoes

Date: 1900
Description: A scrapbook page containing two images; one of a train passing over a trestle bridge and the other of people in two canoes.
Photograph

Trolley Car Pulling Flat Car Carrying McCormick Binder and Mower

Date: 1899
Description: Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr...
Print

William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt

Date: 1899
Description: Campaign poster with the title "Posterity" for Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley featuring their portraits. In the center is an illustration of a wom...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of harvesting machines, tillage and seeding implements. Features a...
Print

Bird's-Eye View of Janesville

Date: 1860
Description: Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building.
Print

Springtime Air Conditioning Ad

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Description: "It's Always Springtime on the C&O," an advertising brochure issued by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to publicize its status as the first railroad to air ...
Photograph

The "Gracie May" Locomotive

Date: 1884
Description: The Fairchild and Northwestern locomotive the "Gracie May," named for Gracie May Foster. Several people pose near the locomotive, including Robert Holmes a...
Photograph

The Milwaukee Road Float

Date: 05 29 1948
Description: The Milwaukee Road float for Wisconsin Centennial Parade, "Wisconsin's First Railroad," with four women in sun dresses.
Photograph

The Milwaukee Road Centennial Float

Date: 05 29 1948
Description: Milwaukee Road float for the Wisconsin Centennial Parade, "Wisconsin's First Railroad," with women on the float and eleven workers standing in front of the...
Photograph

Woman and Child near Bridge

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Description: Woman and child standing in the shadows among the rocks and logs along the river as a freight train crosses the elevated bridge above.
Photograph

Golden Spike Ceremony

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Description: A crowd gathers as a golden stake is driven as a part of a ceremony to celebrate the completion of the Tanana Valley Railroad. Caption reads: "Driving Gold...
Postcard

La Crosse Riverfront

Date: 1910
Description: Caption reads: "Riverfront from Pettibone Park, La Crosse, Wis." There are three steamboats docked on the right in the harbor. A mother and her children ar...
Photograph

Earl Warren for Vice-President Campaign

Date: 10 07 1948
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...
Photograph

Woman on Log

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Description: A woman sits among a group of logs on the shoreline of a river. In the background, a railroad bridge is visible.
Photograph

Three Women Among Logs

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Description: Three women playfully pose among logs near a railroad bridge that passes over a dam. On the bridge, a standing man is visible.
Photograph

Benefit Association of Railway Employees

Date: 10 04 1949
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...
Photograph

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Depot

Date: 1909
Description: View from railroad tracks of a group of six people standing on the platform of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul depot. Beyond the depot is a water tower...
Poster

New York Central Lines Chicago Poster

Date: 1935
Description: An original lithograph promoting New York Central Lines railway and the city of Chicago. Featuring the artist Leslie Ragan, the poster depicts the buildin...
Photograph

Soldiers Returning Home

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Description: Elevated view of a large crowd gathered to welcome the 1st Regiment home from the Spanish-American war.

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