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Model Train

Date: 03 03 1987
Description: Members of the Kettle Moraine Railroad Club operate an HO gauge railroad on a 7x25 foot platform at a weekend model railroad show.
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Railroad Worker

Date: 10 13 1977
Description: A man wearing a hardhat and carrying a tool is walking along railroad tracks. Caption reads: "A railroad worker walked along a line in the Menomonee Valley...
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Railroad Tracks

Date: 1965
Description: Elevated view over railroad yards from the 27th Street viaduct.
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Railroad Mail Car

Date: 11 03 1967
Description: Workers sort mail into bins in a railroad mail car.
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Silver Ribbons

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of parallel tracks in a railroad yard, with a locomotive pulling a boxcar. A man is standing near the boxcar. On the right are buildings, and...
Poster

"Begegnung" (Brief Encounter) Film Poster

Date: 1956
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the British film. Illustrated head and shoulders image of a woman, with her eyes closed. Behind her are railroad t...
Poster

Under the Gaslight Poster

Date: 1867
Description: Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w...
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Jackie Coogan and Wheeler Oakman in "Peck's Bad Boy"

Date: 1921
Description: Henry Peck, the "bad boy" of the title played by Jackie Coogan, and Dr. Martin (played by Wheeler Oakman) are on a railroad velocipede handcar staring at w...
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Journey's End

Date: 02 15 1955
Description: A passenger waiting for a train in front of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad station on a clear and cold evening. The person is holding a lamp, and a ...
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Milwaukee Road Repair Crew

Date: 09 1980
Description: View down tracks of a repair crew working on Milwaukee Road tracks, near Rothschild, using a crane to help lift a rail. An unidentified highway bridge over...
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Fisherman's Boardwalk

Date: 1960
Description: View of a crowd of people lined up fishing side by side on long pier. A railroad bridge, with a tanker car, is in the background.
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Joel McCrea and Robert Benchley

Date: 1940
Description: Joel McCrea and Robert Benchley greet each other at Waterloo Station in a scene still for the film "Foreign Correspondent." There are many men wearing bowl...
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Power

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of a hydroelectric power plant owned by Northern States Power Company located on the Chippewa River. A highway bridge and a railroad bridge spa...
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The Great Train Robbery

Date: 1903
Description: Robbers, guns drawn, escort the engineer from the locomotive in a scene from The Great Train Robbery.
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Newspaper in the Raw

Date: 08 1963
Description: Elevated view of newspaper pulp wood stacked along the Fox River near the Combined Locks Paper Company. A crane is moving the logs, and workers are standin...
Poster

Poster for "Neil O'Brien and his Great American Minstrels"

Date: 1915
Description: Color lithograph poster on paper. Across the top it reads: "Oscar F. Hodge presents," underneath, in larger blue letters is: "Neil O'Brien." Below this: "a...
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Edith Storey and Dog Sooner on Steps of Train

Date: 11 15 1918
Description: Edith Storey, long-time silent film actress, most notably for Vitagraph and Metro Pictures, wearing a fox stole, waves good-bye from the last car of the Sa...
Poster

"Early Works" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the Yugoslavian film, "Rani radovi." Illustrated image of a woman wearing only an open coat and boo...
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Edith Storey and Dog Sooner on Train

Date: 11 15 1918
Description: Long time-silent film actress, most notably for Vitagraph and Metro Pictures, Edith Storey, wearing a fox stole, waves good-bye from the platform at the ba...
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Rico Carty Banner at County Stadium

Date: 10 04 1964
Description: Elevated view of banner in the bleachers shows support for Braves outfielder Rico Carty for National League Rookie of the Year. A freight train, the Mitche...

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