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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A train is parked in the St. Louis and San Fransisco railroad depot, with people gathered nearby. Sign on building reads: "Lunch Room Fred Harvey." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a railroad engine with passengers before it ascends Mount Washington Railroad's 'Jacob's Ladder,' built around 1868 with a grade of 37.41%. |
| Date: | 09 27 1913 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards commercial buildings along a street. There is a wooden sided railroad car on the tracks in the foreground. A sign on th... |
| Date: | 09 18 1916 |
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| Description: | View down multiple railroad tracks, with factory buildings in the distance. Two men are standing near a split in the railroad tracks. The man on the left i... |
| Date: | 05 05 1917 |
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| Description: | View down set of railroad tracks that cross a street through an open gate and head into a railroad yard. There is a man standing near a brick building on t... |
| Date: | 06 20 1913 |
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| Description: | Hay press near factory buildings and railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 12 27 1927 |
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| Description: | View across railroad platform and tracks towards a dealership building. |
| Date: | 03 20 1909 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards factory buildings. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard down two sets of railroad tracks towards the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad station. A number of people are standi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of factory yard, with two railroad tracks crossing each other in the center, and piled between the tracks are scrap metal and lumber. Railroad cars si... |
| Date: | 09 06 1964 |
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| Description: | View over the CBQ railroad tracks. A tree line grows between the railroad tracks and the Mississippi River, which is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View looking down at men gathered at railroad wreck The locomotive is on its side, and the freight cars are demolished. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Interior, with four men, of a small office, very likely a railroad station office. |
| Date: | 08 09 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Gargoyle Mobiloil delivery truck parked near two railroad tracks. The sign painted on the driver's side door reads: "Vacuum Oil Company.... |
| Date: | 05 15 1917 |
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| Description: | Corn Binder outdoors. There is a street in the background, and railroad cars on railroad tracks on an elevated platform along the street on the right. |
| Date: | 04 06 1918 |
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| Description: | A tractor-powered Ensilage Cutter in the yard at McCormick Works. In the background is a shed, and railroad cars on an elevated railroad platform. |
| Date: | 10 28 1918 |
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| Description: | Sweep Rake outdoors in factory yard leaning on concrete near railroad tracks. There is an elevated railroad platform, and factory buildings with a skybridg... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of a locomotive arriving at the Barnum Depot. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Depot owned by the Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad, which was owned by the N.C. Foster Lumber Company. |
| Date: | 06 02 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men loading the bed of an International Model C-35 truck parked behind a railroad car. The men are standing on a platform at the ... |
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