Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation... |
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Description: | Kilbourn; little wood burner locomotive (train engine) at crossing. |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
Date: | 04 1911 |
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Description: | Workmen pose on a steam-powered pile driver at work at the north end of the slough on the Wisconsin River. The railroad was extended from the village to th... |
Date: | 08 15 1911 |
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Description: | Dam site on the Wisconsin river, looking southwest along the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. The coffer dam and two pile drivers are also visible... |
Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
Date: | 10 11 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of high water on the Wisconsin River which has inundated the coffer dam at the construction site. The narrow gauge railroad (curved line in f... |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger gasoline powered crane mounted on a 5-ton standard flatbed railroad car with a grab bucket. A man is standing on the ground on rail... |
Date: | 10 22 1937 |
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Description: | An International truck used by the Seaboard Air Line Railway parked on a brick-paved street. A man is sitting in the cab. Commercial buildings, including t... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Rear view of a man using an Oliver plow pulled by a team of two horses to work around a tree in a field. A railroad train is in the background. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | View across canal of the McCormick Reaper Works factory, rail yard, and surrounding buildings. Men in the foreground are stacking piles of lumber. After 19... |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | View from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, established in 1830. The city's dwellings and establishments can be seen on a hillside from the railroa... |
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Description: | Five men known as the Railroad Section Gang pose together on a handcar on railroad tracks. They traveled on handcars and repaired tracks. Standing second f... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Elevated view of men working on the railroad near a farm field. |
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Description: | Men posed on the front cowcatcher, or pilot, of a wood burning locomotive, with a few cars attached. Three other men pose on the locomotive. |
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Description: | In the afternoon, nothing Overnight, unseen In the morning, a wooden horse with strangers sending telegrams for more |
Date: | 10 03 1955 |
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Description: | Dr. Clifford L. Lord (second from left), director of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, unveiled the Wisconsin Central Railroad historical marker at H... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Switchman standing at the switch next to railroad tracks cut through a rock formation. Another man is standing on top of the rock formation on the left. In... |
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