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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: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Railroad construction crew working on a Chicago & Northwestern Railroad crossing, looking west up the 400 and 500 blocks of East Wilson Street. |
| Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Construction crew working on a Chicago & Northwestern Railroad crossing, looking northwest along the 100 block of South Blair Street. |
| Date: | 10 24 1935 |
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| Description: | Line up of City Cabs in front of the J. Heilprin & Co. Wholesale Fruits & Groceries, 612 W. Main Street, formerly the Illinois Central Passenger Depot. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers using an overhead crane to load new McCormick-Deering tractors (including the 10-20 and possibly the I-20) onto railroad cars outside International... |
| Date: | 12 13 1934 |
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| Description: | Workers loading Farmall F-12 tractors onto railroad cars using an overhead crane outside International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory yard is cover... |
| Date: | 12 13 1934 |
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| Description: | Worker guiding a new Farmall 20 tractor suspended from a crane onto a snow-covered railroad car outside International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 06 13 1935 |
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| Description: | Conklin & Sons, Co., fuel and ice dealers, 24 West Mifflin Street, National Railroad Week window display. |
| Date: | 06 13 1935 |
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| Description: | Show window at Wehrmann's, 508 State Street, of a display of luggage. Signs read: "Luggage for the Grad." There is also a poster for "National Railroad Wee... |
| Date: | 06 07 1935 |
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| Description: | Railroad Week publicity photograph steam locomotive, with a girl in the cab and a railroad worker standing on the engine steps. |
| Date: | 06 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Sol Levitan, Wisconsin State Treasurer, receives $750,000 in tax vouchers from a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad executive. |
| Date: | 07 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of workmen in front of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad viaduct (Olin Avenue - US Highway 12) that is under construction. |
| Date: | 12 22 1930 |
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| Description: | Phil La Follette confers with rail chiefs. Front row (left-right): F.B. Seymour, Green Bay and Western, Philip F. La Follette, Governor-elect, Fred W. Sarg... |
| Date: | 09 29 1930 |
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| Description: | Display in RKO Capitol Theatre's outer lobby for "Danger Lights" and coming attraction "Africa Speaks." Features a model train from Wolff-Kubly & Hersig, w... |
| Date: | 03 29 1933 |
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| Description: | "The old wood train." It is a class H3 train built in 1880 by Manchester Locomotive Works. John Rhine, the engineer, is shown. A large group of men are sta... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Pass issued by the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company for the week of December 17-23, 1933. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Menu of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroads Hiawatha Line opened to show both the front and back cover. During the 1930s the Milwaukee ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Color brochure advertising the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Minneapolis Railroad's Hiawatha, the first streamlined steam locomotive. Hiawatha trains boas... |
| Date: | 02 02 1934 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering W-30 tractor outside a factory. A railroad flat car loaded with tractors is in the background. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the city and the river. |
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