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Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
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Truck and Train Crash

Date: 11 05 1930
Description: People watching railroad workers attempting to extricate the bodies of three men who died under the wheels of the Milwaukee Road passenger train locomotive...
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Car Wreck and Train

Date: 11 27 1949
Description: Car wreckage and a Milwaukee Road switch engine are shown at the University Avenue railroad crossing. The four persons in the car were hurt. They were Mr....
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Derailed Railcars

Date: 09 22 1997
Description: "In Lomira, a Kondex Corp. employee was killed when three derailed railcars plowed into the concrete block building in the background at 5:30 AM. Eleven of...
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Derailed Railcars

Date: 09 22 1997
Description: "A Channel 6 reporter-photographer interviews Dodge County Sheriff, Stephen Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald coordinated security around the crash scene."
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Mayville News Reporters

Date: 09 1997
Description: "Mayville news reporters at the train derailment site are Andrea Hansen and Andrew Johnson."
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Train Derailment Clean-Up

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Description: Close-up of a group of men cleaning up the wreck of a train. Pieces of railroad cars are in piles of dirt. A railroad car is on the right. A town is in the...

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