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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several men, some of whom may be railroad workers, posing in front of a Minnesota and St. Paul wood-burning engine at a train crossing. Th... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Ford truck of Madison plumber W.J. Hyland parked outdoors. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Railroad depot taken as part of a survey by the Wisconsin Power and Light Company to promote economic development by emphasizing available buildings and bu... |
| Date: | 05 23 1925 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering all-steel threshers loaded on railroad cars outside International Harvester's West Pullman Works (factory). The factory originally belong... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | People and carriages in front of the depot-hotel Railway Hotel on West Washington Avenue. This was the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Ticket Offi... |
| Date: | 06 13 1935 |
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| Description: | Conklin & Sons, Co., fuel and ice dealers, 24 West Mifflin Street, National Railroad Week window display. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | View from across the railroad track. The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad car #4770 is in the foreground. The Freeman House, Carlisle House and Empire Stove... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View west from the Cliff House at Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the Chicago, Milwaukee, & Sault Sainte Marie Railway Depot. In the background on the right is the Star Restaurant. Capt... |
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| Description: | Man, possibly Milton J. Harphold, sitting at a telegraph desk in the railroad switch tower. |
| 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: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A cotton bale sits on a platform next to a train, possibly awaiting shipment. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | View over a train stopped at a grain elevator in the foreground. The Hotel Ristau is across a street on the left, and a church building is in the distance ... |
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