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| Date: | 10 15 1934 |
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| Description: | Babe Ruth, wearing a dressing gown, signing autographs from a train car during a stopover in Madison. |
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| Description: | A group of women, probably wearing their best dresses and hats, meeting a Green Bay & Western train. The photograph was probably taken near Black River Fal... |
| Date: | 08 26 1948 |
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| Description: | Lyle T. Beggs, standing on the steps of a Milwaukee Road train, as he is about to leave for VFW camp where he is expected to be elected national commander ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | From left: unidentified man, son Andre, wife Rose, unidentified woman, Walter Wolf Peltz looking out of the window of a railroad car; Hamburg, Germany, en ... |
| Date: | 08 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Four Madison high school youth are standing with their luggage near the entrance to a train car as they prepare to depart for the Red Cross training center... |
| Date: | 08 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Two Madison sisters board a train to travel to out-of-state colleges. Mary Clare Koltes, left, is transfering from the University of Wisconsin to Rollins C... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men and women wait in boxcars and on the platform at a Russian railroad station. The original caption reads: "uppers and lowers on the Trans-Siberian Ry. [... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men and women wait on and near box cars at a train platform in Russia. The original caption reads: "cheapest traveling on the Trans-Siberian Ry. [Railway].... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Several well-dressed men stand near uniformed men outside a railroad car. Two young boys are in the foreground looking back at the photographer. Original c... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Blanchardville Depot. The two-story building is painted with the village's name. A locomotive is in front of the platform where a grou... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Train at Coon Valley depot. Several men stand on the platform. The depot has a water tank. There are advertisements for Pearl White Soap, the inter-state f... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Page from the Tansy Camp Fire Girls album kept by Neighborhood House, with groups of girls posing at the end of a pier, in front of tents, on the remains o... |
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| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The Weinschenker family posing in the doorway of a train car. Standing in front of the group is Chaim Weinschenker. Behind him, from left to right, are an ... |
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| Description: | Sid posing as a hobo, standing on a ladder on the back of a box car. He is wearing a wristwatch, and is looking over his left shoulder and carrying a bindl... |
| Date: | 08 16 1954 |
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| Description: | Seen left to right are Madison Newspapers Inc. newsboys Richard Klinger, Mike Campbell, and Chuck Misky (all from Platteville) and Tom Blanchard (of Poynet... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Members of the Boys' Brigade are posing for a group picture at the train station. Some boys are holding bedrolls. Three men, one on the left and two on the... |
| Date: | 06 18 1918 |
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| Description: | Captain Edwards (r) is standing at the train station with from left to right: W.A. Holt, Alfred or Donald Holt, and a woman, possibly Madeline Wood. In the... |
| Date: | 06 17 1960 |
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| Description: | Thirteen Girl Scouts from Troop 31 from Sherman School prepare to depart on a bus to Minneapolis. The Girl Scouts will earn points for their travel badge. ... |
| Date: | 05 1935 |
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| Description: | One of two images under the headline: "Colonists Play 'Find the Freight'; a Beauty Shop." Original caption reads: "Freight is tossed off anywhere along th... |
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