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| Date: | 05 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Historical Society museum display of railroad lanterns in the "Building Wisconsin Railroads" exhibit. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Steam locomotive moving an overhead crane used to lay rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine. One man is standing on the right, and another man i... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Workers and a steam railroad crane laying rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | The Pennsylvania Railroad purchased this innovative steam engine that was built to pull up to 125 loaded cars at 50 miles per hour. |
| Date: | 12 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Road Service Club family party at E.R.A. Hall, with seven male officers in line being served food by three women, with a small boy looking on. |
| Date: | 05 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train, which is the first across a new bridge in Sheboygan. There is a group of people standing near ... |
| Date: | 01 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Road Service Club officers greeting superintendent at party given at Nakoma Country Club, with Milwaukee Road Service Club sign and banner and Va... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Road float for the Wisconsin Centennial Parade, "Wisconsin's First Railroad." |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Road float for Wisconsin Centennial Parade, "Wisconsin's First Railroad," with four women in sun dresses. |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 10 30 1944 |
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| Description: | The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway depot. A number of pedestrians are waiting for the train. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A preliminary sketch for the left panel of the Centennial Mural in the Wisconsin Historical Society. The panel represents Wisconsin's political history. ... |
| Date: | 11 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Harry G. Marsh, passenger agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, seated at his desk. Mr. Marsh was responsible for troop movements to and from Trua... |
| Date: | 07 08 1945 |
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| Description: | August Carsten, a builder of one of the few roll-away model trains and villages in the country, is shown at the main control of the electric operated model... |
| Date: | 07 24 1945 |
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| Description: | A priest (Father Aloin R. Kutchera from St. Paul's University Chapel?) with a railroad worker standing next to a locomotive. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Man standing with arms outstretched atop a giant potato, resting on a red flatbed train car. The train car says "B & A 321" on the side in white letters, ... |
| Date: | 11 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles H. Thiede, 2218 Rusk Street, at the controls of a Chicago North Western Railroad steam engine as he starts his last run to Chicago afte... |
| 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: | 01 11 1948 |
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| Description: | The remains of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arlington in Columbia Cou... |
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