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Milwaukee Road Celebration Poster

Date: 1940
Description: An original colored poster celebrating the Milwaukee Road's 90 years of progress. The poster features three photographs of locomotive engines, ranging in t...
Poster

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway Poster

Date: 09 1882
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, also "Known as The Royal Route." The poster features the...
Poster

Chicago and Northwestern Railway Passenger Notice Poster

Date: 1888
Description: An original passenger notice poster distributed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway regarding ticket purchases prior to train boarding. In this two-ton...
Poster

Union Pacific Streamliner "City of Denver" Poster

Date: 1930
Description: An original color lithograph promoting the Union Pacific Railway Streamliner, and the "City of Denver." In the artist's depiction, a yellow Union Pacific p...
Poster

The Famous War Engine "General" of the Western & Atlantic R. R. Poster

Date: 1900
Description: An original color lithograph featuring a side profile of "The Famous War Engine "General" of the Western & Atlantic R. R." The artist depicts the steam eng...
Poster

The Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Poster

Date: 1950
Description: An original color lithograph featuring a side profile view of The Milwaukee Road Hiawatha engine and one additional car. Below the image is written: "Built...
Photograph

Men at Pike's Peak

Date: 1910
Description: Three men posing on large rocks at Pike's Peak. Harry Dankoler is on the far left with Joe Leighton next to him and an unidentified man on the far right. A...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Varsity Crew Homecoming

Date: 06 18 1951
Description: Captain Duane Daentl is holding the Varsity Challenge Cup that the rowing crew won at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship races at Marietta...
Photograph

Polio Victims

Date: 08 02 1951
Description: Bonnie Wainscott (left), age 16, and her mother Mrs. Grace Wainscott are greeted by Francis M. Higgins, President of Wisconsin Central Airlines. The Wainsc...
Photograph

Root Commission Members on Board the Buffalo

Date: 1917
Description: Members of the Root Commission trip to Russia playing "ship golf" on board the Buffalo. Original caption identifies the participants as: "Cyrus McCo...
Photograph

Mr. Duncan on Root Commission Passage

Date: 1917
Description: Man identified in original caption as "Mr. Duncan" on board the ship Buffalo as part of the Root Commission's trip to Russia. A goat appears to be l...
Photograph

The "Guardian" Chinese Tour

Date: 04 1974
Description: Supporters of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper, visiting the birthplace of Mao Tse Tung.
Photograph

Restaurant and Bus Terminal

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Description: View across street toward the Center Restaurant and Bus Terminal, with automobiles and a bus parked nearby. The bus driver is standing in front of the bus,...
Photograph

President Franklin Roosevelt in Mexico

Date: 1943
Description: President Franklin Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt on the officials platform during a visit to Monterrey, Mexico. Standing between them (and also pictured on ...
Photograph

President Lyndon Johnson and the Press

Date: 12 23 1967
Description: President Lyndon Johnson chats with members of the press corps who are traveling with him on Air Force One during an around-the-world trip that included a ...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Journal Editor Leaving for World Tour

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: Roy L. Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, boarding a plane to start a 25,000-mile air tour of Europe and the Near East under the sponsorship of...
Photograph

Packing Up

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Description: Sigurd Olson and another man stowing camping gear into an automobile for a canoe trip.
Photograph

Off to the University

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Description: Sigurd Olson, posing proudly, as he leaves his Ashland home for study at the University of Wisconsin. A woman is standing in the doorway of a house behind ...
Photograph

Sig Olson

Date: 1955
Description: Sigurd Olson, wearing his characteristic attire, on a trip on the Upper Churchill River.
Photograph

Sigurd Olson

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Description: Sigurd Olson, in typical camping attire, during a canoe trip at Quetico Park in Canada.

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