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| Description: | The Milwaukee Merchants & Manufacturers Special Train. A steam engine with several cars stretching to the horizon is sitting on the tracks in front of a pl... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards oncrete locks on a narrow river in winter. Snow is on the ground, and a water tower and smokestack are on the other side of the... |
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| Description: | Corner of Grove and Mineral Streets with cars parked along the road. Storefronts line the streets. The Goodwill store, a used car dealership and a water to... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large pile of coal sitting under a tarp, with an empty truck waiting nearby. Industrial buildings and water towers are across the river.... |
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| Description: | Water Tower Park with bare trees in the background. Snow covers the ground. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man standing at the front of a freighter, just above the name painted on the side, "James Laughlin". Industrial buildings and water towe... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | From Jones Island, looking across to a manufacturing area with cranes and large piles of coal or coke? In the lower foreground is a bare hill, with old pil... |
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| Description: | Piles of sand are on the ground, and more sand is pouring off a large dredge. The dredge is mounted on a ship. A building in the background has a water tow... |
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| Description: | Elevated view, probably taken from the old Wisconsin State Capitol building, looking down East Washington Avenue toward the water tower. |
| Date: | 03 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison streets, new pavement, viewed on Myrtle Street, looking west toward Oscar Mayer plant. |
| Date: | 04 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Veterans Hospital at Tomah. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A train carries McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) bouind for North Dakota farms. A sign on the train reads: "McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thr... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn fire wagon in front of several brick buildings, including the Capitol Publishing building, near the water tower. The man driving the wagon may... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A winter view of the Wausau Furniture building at 109-111 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A sidewalk view down 318 North Jefferson Street with Sebatian Gagliano's Florist Shop in the foreground. Several people stroll on the sidewalk. |
| Date: | 08 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the newly reconstructed East Washington Avenue, looking east at the 700 block. A water tower is on the right. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from water of Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends ove... |
| Date: | 08 15 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from window of the Pawling & Harnischfeger factory on the corner of National Avenue and 44th Street. The road in front has power lines along ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Warden Kramer and an assistant hold up confiscated sturgeon caught with illegal snag lines. |
| Date: | 11 25 1925 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by the Excelsior Laundry Company is parked along a street in front of a monument for the Fort Dearborn massacre. The lettering ... |
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