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This is a small light colored stone house. It has a curved roof, much like the look of a barn. There is a small chimney on the back side of the roof in the middle. The house faces a dirt hill and a walkway comes up from the middle of the sidewalk and…

A stone house with a staircase leading from the top of the porch, down the hill with greenery, to the sidewalk. The sidewalk has a short wall of limestone that separates it from the hill. The house is two story and the front porch features a front…

A man sits at a typewriter next to a telegraph machine and a second man stands in this stock exchange room in the B & I building. The negative is heavily damaged. The number “161” has been written on the emulsion side of the negative and is visible…

Four stories in height with elaborate peaked roof gables, this large brick building housed classrooms, laboratories and administrative offices. The front of the building faced University Avenue. Dedicated on April 25, 1907, the building was named…

A double decker passenger steamboat and a smaller steam-powered tow boat may be seen passing each other on the Mississippi River near Dubuque, Iowa. The tow boat is pushing one barge. A wing dam in visible in the background. Farm land may be seen…

The Mississippi River is in view with a steamboat in the background on the right side of the photograph. The steamboat has to large steam pipes in the front of the steamboat and in front of the pilot house that sits on the roof of the second level of…

A steam locomotive is on a rail line and coming towards the photographer. The locomotive has dark black steam coming out in a cloud above. The train tracks appear to be raised above because to the left are the tops of telegraph poles. To the right is…

A steam locomotive carrying cargo containers goes over a small bridge over land. The locomotive is moving toward the photographer and curving around. Telegraph poles sit to the right of the train tracks. The railroad is raised above and there is an…

Four steam engines, all with steam coming from their stacks, may be seen waiting adjacent to each other in the yard of the Milwaukee Railroad. Coal tender 4380 and its engine are coupled in reverse to tender 4378 and its engine. Shop buildings are…

A steam engine is coming from the left, through a cleft cut in the rock, while a man stands close to the embankment. There is a stream in the flats to the right of the tracks.