Summary Information
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company Records
1844-1954
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company
Mss 201; M97-098; M2001-199
7.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes and 11 flat boxes); plus additions of 0.2 c.f.
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records of A. J. Dupuis, director of public relations for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company, commonly known as the Milwaukee Road. Two boxes contain records of the public relations department, including routine correspondence, 1929-1936; biographical material about company employees; and a subject file on the history of the railroad. The remainder of the collection consists of samplings of records collected by the department for a railroad museum. These include correspondence, letterpress volumes, operations records, and financial records generated by the Milwaukee line and eight other railroads with which it merged.
English
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Biography/History
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad, commonly referred to as the Milwaukee Road, is the end product of a series of mergers from 1847 to 1928 which involved 154 railroad lines. The Milwaukee Road began its evolution in Wisconsin with the Milwaukee and Waukesha Railway in 1847. Following construction and mergers the name changed to the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad in 1850. This line between 1851 and 1874 rapidly expanded eastward and westward through further mergers and extensive construction to become the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. Expansion even further westward to Seattle in 1909 made it the last of the transcontinental lines. Almost twenty years after reaching the West Coast, the Milwaukee Road officially became the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in 1928.
The expansion of this railroad, its construction, and its financial problems have received extensive coverage in August Derleth's heavily documented book, The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years (New York: Creative Age Press, 1948).
Arrangement of the Materials
This collection was received in multiple parts from the donor(s) and is organized into 3 major parts. These materials have not been physically interfiled and researchers might need to consult more than one part to locate similar materials.
Related Material
Photographs and graphics of the railroad are cataloged separately under Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company Photographs and Graphic Materials.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by A. J. Dupuis, Director of Public Relations of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad, Chicago, Illinois, 1963. Accession Number: M63-21, M76-612, M84-138, M85-470, M97-098, M2001-199
Processed by Phillip Driscoll (archives intern), May 8, 1972.
Contents List
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Mss 201
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Part 1 (Mss 201): Original Collection, 1844-19547.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes, 11 flat boxes) This collection contains fragmentary documentation of two aspects of the Milwaukee Road in the 1930s--the Public Relations Department and a railroad museum for which the department collected a disparate group of records. The Public Relations Department files consist of biographical material, correspondence, and subject files concerning the history of the railroad. Correspondence concerning requests for data on the history of the Milwaukee Road is scattered throughout this series. The biographical material includes articles, clippings, and some letters of early prominent officials and employees of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad, including John Hogan, employee of the Milwaukee Road for 83 years; George R. Peck, general solicitor of the railroad, and others. The E. O. Reeder collection of obituary notices of railroad officials and employees, 1879-1934, can also be found here. The departmental correspondence file, 1929-1936, concerns requests for historical data and routine operations of the department. The subject files give a fragmentary picture of the history of the Milwaukee Road and its activities in Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, and Wisconsin between 1847 and 1940. Included in these files are pamphlets, a term paper by Helen M. Garvey (University of Chicago student, 1909), clippings, and articles. The materials collected for the railroad museum are predominantly bound volumes, reports, circulars, and scrapbooks which were gathered for museum displays. These records are very fragmented, being only samplings of record series. They include correspondence, 1856-1954, and letterpress volumes, 1883-1896, as well as building, maintenance, and operation records generated by the Milwaukee Road between 1888 and 1902. There is also a sampling of financial records of the Milwaukee line and eight other railroads with which it merged. Scrapbooks which contain clippings, early correspondence, vouchers, and receipts; miscellaneous reports; and a subject file on the Custer Creek Wreck (June 19, 1938) make up the remainder of this collection.
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Series: Public Relations Department
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Biographical Material
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Box/Folder
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Volume
1
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Colonel W. J. Boyle's Scrapbook, 1894-1906
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John Hogan
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Box/Folder
1/2
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Articles, 1838-1948
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Box/Folder
1/3
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Clippings, 1932-1938
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Box/Folder
1/4
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Correspondence, 1930-1938
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Box/Folder
1/5
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J. H. Leavitt, Published letters, 1854-1861
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Box/Folder
1/5
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Alexander Mitchell, 1817-1887
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Box/Folder
1/6
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George R. Peck, 1843-1923
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E. O. Reeder Clippings, 1895-1927
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Box/Folder
1/7
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A-H
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Box/Folder
2/1
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L-W
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Box/Folder
2/2
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Miscellany: Onward Bates, Clark A. Stewart, and Charles Lapham
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Box/Folder
2/3
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Correspondence, General, 1929-1936
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Subject Files concerning Railroads
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Box/Folder
2/4
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History, 1844-1940
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Box/Folder
2/5
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Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, undated
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Box/Folder
2/6
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Wisconsin, articles and correspondence, 1847-1940
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Box/Folder
3/1
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Wisconsin, general, undated
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Box/Folder
3/2
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Wisconsin, Milwaukee clippings, undated
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Series: Collected Materials
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Correspondence
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Box/Folder
3/3
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General, 1856-1954
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Box
3
Volume
2
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Incoming, Letterpress book of Company officers, 1895-1903
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Box
3
Volume
3
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A.H. Field, Letterpress book, Outgoing, 1883-1896
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Box
4
Volume
4
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J.F. Field, Letterpress book, Outgoing, 1881-1890
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Circulars
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Box/Folder
4/1
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1868-1903
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Box
4
Volume
5
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1867-1869
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Box
4
Volume
6
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1867-1888
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Box
5
Volume
7
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1882-1884
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Box
6
Volume
8
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1888-1892
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Financial Records of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Railway
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Box
7
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Bills Register
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Box
7
Volume
9
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Cash Book, Prairie du Chien Division, 1876-1878
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Box/Folder
8/1
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Dividends, 1879-1885; Annual Report, , 1929; Certificates, , 1870-1898
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Box/Folder
8/2
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Payrolls, Minneapolis Division, 1890-1909; Payroll, Passenger Department, , 1901-1903
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Box/Folder
8/3
Volume
11
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Payroll and Time Books, Illinois, 1880-1913
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Box
8
Volume
10
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Journal of Expenses, 1879
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Financial Records of Other Railroads
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Box
8
Volume
12
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Chicago, Des Moines, and Mississippi Railroad Ledger, 1874-1875
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Box
9
Volume
13
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Chicago and Pacific Railroad (Stillman Valley) Cash Book, 1876-1880
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Box
9
Volume
14
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Des Moines, Northern, and Western Railroad Company Freight Received, 1896-1898
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Box
10
Volume
15
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La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad (Kilbourn City) Freight Received, 1858-1859
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Box
10
Volume
16
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Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway (Kilbourn City) Freight Received, 1864-1865
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Box
11
Volume
17
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Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway (Lac Division) Freight Received, 1873-1875
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Box/Folder
12/1
Volume
18
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Minnesota Central Railway Company (Faribault Station) Freight Received, 1866-1867
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Box
11
Volume
19
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Racine and Mississippi Railroad Freight Received, 1855-1856
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Box
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Volume
20
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Southern Minnesota Railroad (Wells Station) Freight Received, 1873-1875
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Box/Folder
12/2
Volume
21
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Western Union Railroad Ticket Sales, 1872-1875
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Building Records
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Box/Folder
12/3
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Standard plans, instructions, and blueprints, undated
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Box/Folder
12/4
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Depot Construction, 1888
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Box/Folder
12/5
Volume
22
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La Crosse Division, 1902
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Maintenance Records
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Box/Folder
12/6
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Grade Crossings, circa 1894
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Box
13
Volume
23
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Railroad Crossings Index, circa 1894
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Box
13
Volume
24
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Railroad Crossings (Volume I), circa 1894
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Box
14
Volume
25
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Railroad Crossings (Volume II), circa 1894
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Box
14
Volume
26
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Railroad Crossings (Volume III), circa 1894
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Operation Records
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Box/Folder
15/1
Volume
27
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Arrival and Departure List (Portage, Wisconsin) 1868-1869
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Box/Folder
15/2
Volume
28
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Car Movement Record (Illinois), 1878
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Box/Folder
15/3
Volume
29
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Message and Order Book (Iowa Division), 1889
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Box/Folder
15/4
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Train Orders, 1880-1898
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Box/Folder
15/5
Volume
30
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Telegraph Register (Iowa), 1896
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Box
16
Volume
31
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Train Register and Correspondence, 1885-1892
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Box/Folder
17/1
Volume
32
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Train Transfer Order Book, 1887
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Box/Folder
17/2
Volume
33
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Train Register (Horicon, Wisconsin), 1902-1903
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Reports
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Box/Folder
17/3
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Condition of the Southern Minnesota Railroad Company, circa 1856
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Box/Folder
17/3
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Mileage Statement, 1928
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Box/Folder
17/3
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Roster of the 13th U.S. Army Engineers, 1917-1919
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Scrapbooks
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Box/Folder
17/4
Volume
34
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Milwaukee Road, 1911-1917
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Box/Folder
17/5
Volume
35
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Wisconsin Valley Division, 1890-1894
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Box
18
Volume
36
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Miscellany
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Subject File: Custer Creek Wreck
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Correspondence
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Box/Folder
19/1
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General, 1938-1939
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Box/Folder
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To newspaper editors from Railroad president, 1938
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Box/Folder
19/4-6
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Clippings, 1938
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M97-098
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Part 2 (M97-098): Additions, 1902-1903
0.1 c.f. (4 sheets in an oversize folder)
: Blueprints for the C. M. & St. P. passenger depot at Marinette, Wisconsin, drawn in 1902-1903 by J. U. Nettenstrom, architect. Included are floor and foundation plans, elevations, and cross sections.
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M2001-199
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Part 3 (M2001-199): Additions, 1879
0.1 c.f. (2 sheets in an oversize folder)
: Additions, 1879, consisting of blueprints for the railroad's roundhouse and machine shop at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, including floor plans, elevations, and cross sections.
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