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Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad

Date: 1884
Description: View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large...
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Tower Foundation

Date: 1898
Description: View from water tower, showing the grove where Black Hawk's pursuers were supposed to have camped in 1832. The group of men in the foreground are digging f...
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Soo Line Railroad Bridge

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Description: Elevated view from shoreline toward construction workers standing on the Soo Line Railroad Bridge over the Wisconsin River.
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Glenn Curtiss Flying Langley's Plane

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Description: Image of Curtiss flying an airplane over a body of water. There is a hill along the shoreline in the background.
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Signal Point Stone Wall Under Construction

Date: 1936
Description: Four men are building the wall at Signal Point Lookout in Wyalusing State Park. They are part of Works Progress Administration (WPA) Project #8656-8. Th...
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N.C. Thompson Advertising Booklet

Date: 1880
Description: Front page of booklet with an engraving of a man with a team of two horses in a field with the "Celebrated Gorham Sulky Cultivator."
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Workers Harvesting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from China, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the rice plantations. All of the workers and their families lived on the compound and worked long ...
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Workers Planting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h...
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Newly Constructed Trestle Bridge outside Cape Town

Date: 1910
Description: View of the newly constructed trestle bridge outside of Cape Town, South Africa.

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