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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | The Fairchild and Northwestern locomotive the "Gracie May," named for Gracie May Foster. Several people pose near the locomotive, including Robert Holmes a... |
| Date: | 10 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison Ray-O-Vac plant, 2313-25 Winnebago Street. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | View from across the railroad track. The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad car #4770 is in the foreground. The Freeman House, Carlisle House and Empire Stove... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Young man posing on train tracks in front of two passenger cars decorated with banners for the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Club. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with three men and a dog on railroad tracks, also a man in the far background. Two of the men are up on the snowbanks with shovels. "The Grand... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Women in hats in foreground, with railroad tracks below and sign that says, "Look out for the cars," and "While the bell rings the whistle blows." Very lik... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View west from the Cliff House at Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 03 24 1875 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of the Grand and Majestic Snowbanks on the Madison and Portage Railroad, listed as one of four views of "15 to 30 ft. high snow-banks" in Dahl... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Business with Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper took Hölzlhuber to New York, and from there he also visited Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washingt... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | At the opening of the railway between Grandhaven and Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 26, 1857, the locomotive Grand Rapids was manned by the railroad... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | The maple and hickory forests in the old northwest were often plagued with fires during the summer months. Hölzlhuber, on a return journey from Niagara Fal... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber traveled on American railways frequently and marveled that they wouldn't have been accepted as usable in Europe. This sketch of the tunnel on th... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A deer hunting party pose with carcasses and supplies by a train on the C. St. P. M. & O. railroad. |
| Date: | 12 23 1895 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn implement makes a cut at a crossing where the tunnel will be made for the Wisconsin Central Railway. |
| Date: | 12 11 1895 |
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| Description: | View of the construction area of the Wisconsin Central Railway, looking southeast at Shipyard Point with workers and a team of horses. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the city and the river. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of the road between the railroad and the Mescalero Agency, which is surrounded by a sixty by twenty mile section of white sands, co... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Mammoth Ore Docks, Ashland, Wis." A building and roads are in the foreground. Several ore ships can be seen. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Railway passenger depot in Ashland (?), Wisconsin. |
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