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Wisconsin Railroad Car

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Description: "The Wisconsin," a passenger car of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. This color illustration is from a dismantled scrapbook.
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Racine & Mississippi Railroad Pass

Date: 1861
Description: 1861 Racine and Mississippi Railroad Pass belonging to Jackson Kemper.
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Railroad Lands Advertisement

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Description: Advertising card for Wisconsin Central Railroad land for sale at $5 an acre.
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Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad Pass

Date: 1859
Description: 1859 Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad pass belonging to S.S. Merrill. Pass is signed by George Dunlap.
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Milwaukee, Lake Shore, & Western Railroad Pass

Date: 1878
Description: Pass #497 issued for free travel during the year 1878 by the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad.
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Wisconsin Western Railroad Pass

Date: 1900
Description: Pass # 258 issued to General Manager Charles Lapham by the Wisconsin Western Railroad for the year 1900.
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Racine & Mississippi Railroad Poster

Date: 1858
Description: Poster advertising the Racine & Mississippi Railroad.
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Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Advertisement

Date: 1858
Description: Advertisement for Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad. Features a woodcut of a train near the top of the page.
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Springtime Air Conditioning Ad

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Description: "It's Always Springtime on the C&O," an advertising brochure issued by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to publicize its status as the first railroad to air ...
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Railroad Land Sales

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Description: A colored advertising card that was issued by the Land Department of the Wisconsin Central Railroad in order to promote the sale of railroad-owned land in ...
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Railroad Mail Delivery

Date: 1876
Description: Railroad advertising card showing a mail carrier on horseback on a plank road in 1776, and mail being delivered by train in 1876. A woman with two children...
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Brees' Express Receipt

Date: 11 08 1860
Description: Receipt for a package delivered to Brees' Express via Morris & Essex Railroad. There is an engraving of a train traveling through a rural landscape near th...
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Modern Locomotive

Date: 1902
Description: Depiction of the "modern" locomotive at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road Advertisement

Date: 1851
Description: Advertisement for Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company. There is an engraving of a train and a list of the officers of the company.
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Fox River Paper Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Fox River Paper Company of Appleton, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the company building and a hanging roll of paper that incorp...
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Minocqua Train Station

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Description: Greeting card with a winter view of the Minocqua railroad station. A child is pulling another child on a sled through the snow, and two people are meeting ...
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Railroad Commission Dinner Dance Menu

Date: 02 17 1913
Description: Cyanotype menu for a Railroad Commission Dinner Dance, with a train steaming down the tracks, the seal of the state of Wisconsin, and two presentations of ...
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Second Locomotive

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Description: A depiction of the Second Locomotive is shown on the tracks and ready to roll. Caption reads: "Second Locomotive, 1845."
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Westward the Star of Empire Takes its Way

Date: 1886
Description: Advertisement for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam stretched from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean....
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Cohn & Robertson Granite Mfg. Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Cohn & Robertson Granite Manufacturing Company of Granite Heights and Wausau, Wisconsin, with a view of workers loading a C.M.&St.P. rail...

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