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Portage Railroad

Date: 1884
Description: A group of men and boys posed around Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive # 313, a switch engine. The Fox House is in the background.
Photograph

Streetcar Track Construction on Capitol Square

Date: 1905
Description: Construction of new streetcar tracks on the Capitol Square. In the background, on the corner of Main and Carroll streets, is the Park Hotel. Behind the hot...
Photograph

Loading Platform at McCormick Works

Date: 1936
Description: Factory workers on the loading platform in the Repair Parts Department at McCormick Works.
Photograph

Fremont Railroad Station

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Description: Men at a railroad station awaiting the arrival of a train in Fremont (later Pray). There is snow on the ground. Two men are standing on a hand-powered rail...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1922
Description: View down center of Main Street with cobblestones. There is a railroad crossing in the foreground. Service garages are on the left and right corners. Parke...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 47-54

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Description: The fast movement was a nervous reach for something west.
But along the way there was no hurry. Wait for noontime, turned round to a movement eastward,<...
Photograph

Land Survey Corners Marked

Date: 02 02 1960
Description: The Madison Redevelopment Authority joined in the city's program of locating and permanently marking land survey corners in the Madison area. Here they mar...
Photograph

Photographer Near Railroad Crossing

Date: 1940
Description: A photographer is walking near railroad tracks at a railroad crossing, with an automobile at the crossing in the background on the right. The photographer ...

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