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| Date: | 07 20 1932 |
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| Description: | Group of men sitting on top of railroad flatbed car loaded with culverts. Sign above them reads: "Capital City Culvert Company," 1335 Gilson Street. |
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| Description: | Men walking near the railroad Crossing Store. Above the store is a bridge providing a walkway over the railroad tracks. |
| 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: | 07 19 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Pawling & Harnischfeger 25-ton type "N" bridge with a 5-ton type "A" trolley and a standard bottom block, equipped for exterior use. There... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane involved with the construction of the Long Island Railroad. There is a sign on the crane that... |
| Date: | 10 31 1938 |
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| Description: | A man smoking a cigarette shovels what appears to be gravel onto the back of an International D-30 truck marked "City of Quincy" from a train car. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man drives an International L-180 truck outfitted with a North American Van Lines Inc. trailer down a road next to a railroad track. Train cars, a buildi... |
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| Description: | Panoramic right side view of the Dort Automobile special train enroute from Flint, Michigan to Minneapolis, Minnesota via Wisconsin & Michigan Railroad. A ... |
| Date: | 04 11 1923 |
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| Description: | A man driving an industrial McCormick Deering tractor is pulling a sled full of goods from a train car. Three men are helping to push it onto the loading d... |
| Date: | 08 11 1927 |
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| Description: | View of a man sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck backed up to a loading dock. The sign painted on the passenger door reads: "Union Pacific, D... |
| Date: | 11 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Right side profile view of a locomotive pulling a railroad car with a sign painted on the side that reads: "Illinois Northern Ry." The railroad engineer is... |
| Date: | 06 05 1928 |
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| Description: | View towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a Gillespie Grain Co. Ltd. truck, with an open truck bed loaded with sacks of oats. In the background is... |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | View across road and railroad tracks towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck with a stake body. The sign on the side of the truck reads: "Int... |
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| Description: | Elevated group portrait of men posing in front of the J.H. Findorff, Contractor, Planing Mill & Lumber Yard building. A smaller brick building on the far r... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Three men are posing in front of construction materials. The man on the left is holding a hand drill, the man in the center is holding a long saw, and the ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks looking towards a long line of railroad cars on another set of tracks. The large banners on the side of some of the cars reads: "... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the warehouse and cold storage building of the Northern Wisconsin Produce Company at 1310 Clark Street. Two workmen are icing th... |
| Date: | 08 07 1928 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck. The back is piled with sacks of flour. The signs on the truck read: "Millers to His Majesty the ... |
| Date: | 11 02 1928 |
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| Description: | View towards three lumber delivery trucks parked in a row. The signs on the truck reads: "W.H. Chapman & Son." Railroad cars on railroad tracks on the righ... |
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