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Shortly after the July fourth 1910 celebration, the next big social event was the Oliver Typewriter picnic. The ad in the July 21, 1910 Woodstock Sentinel: Oliver Typewriter Employe's Picnic to be held at Fox River Grove, Cary, Illinois Saturday July…

"This is a picture of a train wreck that happened in downtown Woodstock in July 1904. The square is in the background where the trees are (about southwest). My grandmother is to the right of the shack & my grandfather has his back to her looking at…

Three trains have pulled into the station. The arriving passenger train has several people getting off and leaving the area. The passenger train going to Chicago has an engine blowing steam. A freight train is on the third rail.
The depot is the…

This scan of two train engines and a coal car traveling over the viaduct on South St. is undated but the cutline for the Sesquicentennial Photo Exhibit labels it as nineteenth century.
It is not clear enough to determine if there is one track or…

It is the opinion of the archives crew at the Chicago and North Western Historical Society that the locomotive in the photo you sent (balloon stack) IS a C&NW locomotive but a rare one used only in northern Wisconsin and did not run down here in…

This photo is a closer view than photo Item #446: "Waiting for the Train Oliver Typwriter Picnic" and still from a high vantage point. The train has pulled into the station and Oliver Typewriter employees are gathered to enter. Near the front, some…