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McCormick Sawmill
Lantern slide illustration of a sawmill(?) in 1863 near a railroad line with a steam train approaching.
McCormick Hotel
People posing on the porch and inside the upper windows of the McCormick Hotel. A woman is standing in the open doorway. There are doors on the second story, but no balcony.
Steam Locomotive
June 7, 1935
Railroad Week publicity photograph steam locomotive, with a girl in the cab and a railroad worker standing on the engine steps.
Steam Engine in front of Factory
circa 1910-1919
Men pose on and around a large steam engine locomotive and mineral cars(?) in front of a factory with tall smokestacks. The side of the engine reads: "Calumet & South Eastern R.R."
