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| Description: | Lumber workers laying railroad tracks through the woods. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View looking west from Lake Michigan with several steam ships and sailing vessels in harbor. There is a lighthouse to left of center, along shoreline. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Wausau, looking north with ninety-eight businesses, industries, churches, schools, and civic buildings identified in location key below i... |
| Date: | 05 23 1925 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering all-steel threshers loaded on railroad cars outside International Harvester's West Pullman Works (factory). The factory originally belong... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Twelve piece brass band playing at a railroad station during the "Union Pacific Preparedness Special Campaign." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Eighteen man crew for the Union Pacific Silo Special Trip posing for a group portrait in front of railroad cars. |
| Date: | 05 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Historical Society museum display of railroad lanterns in the "Building Wisconsin Railroads" exhibit. |
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| Description: | Two men stand in front of the Hand Car Shop, which was built in 1916. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Men pose on and around a large steam engine locomotive and mineral cars(?) in front of a factory with tall smokestacks. The side of the engine reads: "Calu... |
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| Description: | Interior of railroad bridge, with walkway below. There is a man standing on the left at the railing of the walkway. |
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| Description: | View of the river and the underside of a railroad bridge at Kilbourn. There is a building in the background on the right just above the cliffs along the ri... |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi, Minnesota. Train whistling (steam rising) for a crossing. Two men are on a train, with one standing next to the engine. |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi, Minnesota, near Hastings. Engine and car of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway with men posing sitting on the cattle-catcher, l... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Mogul tractors loaded onto railroad cars outside International Harvester's Tractor Works. A variety of parts, engines, implements, and tra... |
| Date: | 03 26 1924 |
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| Description: | Artist's bird's-eye illustration of International Harvester's Hamilton Works factory complex, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, by H.M. Pettit. |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi, Turkey River Bluff. View over locomotive of diverging railroad tracks. A man with an axe is walking down the tracks on the left towards ... |
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