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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers loading and unloading wood at the wood stock yard of the McCormick Reaper Works. Men are working on both sides of the Chicago River. Rail cars and ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Oscar Mayer & Company, 910 Mayer Avenue at Packers Avenue. Shows stock yards, railroad cars and automobile parking lot. Also shows C.E. & P.... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad station looking west. A bridge over the river is in the foreground, and a large water tower is across the railroad tracks on ... |
| Date: | 05 28 1923 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the buildings of International Harvester's Croix Works (factory) and the accompanying transport railway. Croix was located in France. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of rows of finished tractors cover a yard outside Milwaukee Works. On the left is a water tower, and in the foreground are railroad tracks wi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | West Milwaukee. Elevated view of tracks, trains, and buildings. A train roundhouse is located in the background. |
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| Description: | View of the St. Louis-San Francisco train yard and railway shops. Train cars are parked on the track leading into a warehouse. Men are working near the tra... |
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| Description: | An elevated view of Frisco roundhouse and freight yards, a train yard where many cars and a few locomotives are parked. Painted on the side of many of the ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks looking towards the Bagley train station. On the right is a large storage tank. A man is driving a car near the railroad tracks n... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks where three boys are standing. The water tank and windmill are on the right near the Deerfield Depot. On the far right, two men a... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the Kissel Motor Car Company. The elevated view shows the factory buildings, water towers, railroad cars and track. A dirigib... |
| Date: | 09 1902 |
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| Description: | Farmers with wagon loads of sacks of potatoes(?), probably waiting to load them on a train. |
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| Description: | View down middle of two railroad tracks towards the railroad depot. Freight cars are on another set of railroad tracks on the left, and in the far backgrou... |
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| Description: | View down hill towards Stoddard, with the Mississippi River and hills in the background. The German Lutheran Church is in the foreground, and there are rai... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A view of the depot and yards. A windmill and water tower in the distance. Carts with sacks of flour and milk cans next to the depot. Signs for Western Uni... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View over railroad tracks towards the railroad water tank. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the roundhouse for the Chicago North Western Railway, one of two Elroy roundhouses during the railroad boom. This roundhouse has 20 stalls... |
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| Description: | View of the Chicago North Western Railroad Roundhouse in Elroy. There are several train cars sitting on multiple sets of railroad tracks on the left. There... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Kissel auto plant in between the railroad and the river. A dirigible and bi-plane have been cut and pasted onto the image. Caption rea... |
| Date: | 09 04 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across dirt road towards a train entering a railroad yard. |
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