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| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | [... through northern United States from New York to Minnesota]. Lithography by T. Sinclair. From Perrault papers, Lucien S. Hanks, donor. |
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| Description: | Cover of piano music, showing a train at night with headlight on, titled "The Midnight Flyer," March Two-Step. Arranged by E.T. Paull. |
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| Description: | Man standing on the top of the stairway of the railroad switch control tower, probably just outside Sheppard, Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Man leaning his feet on the switches in the railroad switch control tower. |
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| Description: | Man, possibly Milton J. Harphold, sitting at a telegraph desk in the railroad switch tower. |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway back on the track. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Shows railroads, planned and in place. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Benedict & Co. engineers. As shown by development to March 1st 1887. Inset: Map of northern Wisconsin showing location of range. Lands in red. |
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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. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers Local 80 picketing the Campbell Soup Company plant. The union had walked out as a result of wage, union shop, an... |
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| Description: | Brick plant, possibly the one at Haley, six to seven miles up the river from Black River Falls. May also be a sawmill, as piles of lumber are in the foregr... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertisement reads: "Castle-Pierce Printing Company" and "Feb. 1915". Text on right reads: "The Heart of Oshkosh. This birds-eye view represents about one... |
| Date: | 11 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison-Kipp Corporation, 201 Waubesa Street, beside the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad tracks. Shown are three loaded flatcars on a si... |
| Date: | 05 23 1925 |
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| Description: | A train transports McCormick-Deering All-Steel threshers from International Harvester's Plano Works. The factory was later known as "West Pullman Works." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | One of the locomotives from the Hillsboro and Northeastern Railway with the engineer leaning out of his window. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of International Harvester's Norrkoping Works in Norrkoping, Sweden. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of International Harvester's Montataire Works in Montataire, France. Dwellings are in the foreground. |
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