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| Packing a traveler's trunk offers students the opportunity to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in this lesson |
| Date: | 10 15 1934 |
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| Description: | Babe Ruth, wearing a dressing gown, signing autographs from a train car during a stopover in Madison. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior shot of the Blue River depot. Five men are standing outside the building. There is a Wells Fargo cart on the platform. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A page of snapshots with handwritten captions of Paris scenes and friends visiting Paris. Part of a scrapbook of photographs from Stevenson's service in Wo... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Mary Baldwin (Duluth), John Neimeyer (Duluth), and the bow of the "Zenya." |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A movable billboard aimed at passing motorists along State Highway 20 in Illinois. It reads "Relax in Wisconsin, Where Friends and Nature Meet." Although... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cover from schedule showing passengers relaxing on the deck of a screw-driven passenger/freight vessel. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Pages 1 and 2 from the schedule describes the schedule and ports of call for the "Manitou" and the "Puritan". |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Map of the routes of the screw passenger and freight vessels of the Michigan Transit Company. Includes a picture of the Park Place hotel in Traverse City, ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Passengers seated on the upper level of a Milwaukee Railroad superdome coach. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of people seated in the Hiawatha's observation parlor with sky-top solar lounge. The Hiawatha was signature high-speed passenger train for th... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | International Special Delivery truck on a snowy street in the Midwestern United States. The truck bears a sign that reads "Here it is! The truck that cross... |
| Date: | 09 26 1984 |
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| Description: | A woman uses an early commercial computer network that allows travel agents to book their own flights without the use of a telephone. |
| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Children, adults, and a Northwest Airlines Boeing 707 jetliner on the tarmac at General Mitchell International Airport. The children, all first graders fro... |
| Date: | 06 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Night view of Robert Blossom's Mobil Gas Station, 3702 East Washington Avenue and Highway 51. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a family setting up a tent in mountain field near a small lake. An International Traveler pickup with simulated vinyl roof,... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a couple sightseeing in a 1965 International Scout pickup pulling an Airstream camper in the Nevada hills. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a 1977 International Scout Traveler pickup with Terry camper set against a mountainous backdrop. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Passengers boarding a Northwest Airlines DC-3 at Madison Municipal Airport. When this airplane was photographed for the WPA by Harold Hone, the DC-3, one o... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith and family view the glacier at Grindewald during their European tour. |
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