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• Dec 23, 2023

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Circa 1902. "Steel viaduct over Des Moines River, Iowa. Chicago & North Western Railway."
8x10 glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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1906. "Iron mine, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

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• Dec 23, 2023

• #1,843

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November 1942. "Track crews repairing tracks in the roundhouse at the Illinois Central rail yard, Chicago."
Photo by Jack Delano for the OWI.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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December 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Repair and overhauling in the Chicago & North Western Railroad locomotive shops."
Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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Circa 1910. "Maumee River waterfront -- Toledo, O." Railroads represented on the coal cars: Hocking Valley,
Kanawha and Michigan, Zanesville & Western, Toledo & Ohio Central. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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Circa 1899. "Near Lewiston, Minnesota -- The Pulpit." Yet another rock formation with a fanciful name.
8x10 inch dry plate glass negative.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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March 1943. "Parmerton, Texas. Passing an eastbound freight on the Santa Fe Railroad between Amarillo and Clovis,
New Mexico." Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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March 1943. "Dalies, New Mexico. Conductor C.W. Tevis picking up a message from a woman operator on the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe between Belen and Gallup." Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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July 19, 1939. "New York World's Fair, railroad exhibit locomotives. Locomotive of Tomorrow, general view."

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• Dec 23, 2023

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November 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Washing a locomotive at the coaling station at an Illinois Central railyard."
Triple Foam and Rain-X, $3 extra. Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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Circa 1906. "Railway station at Weirs -- Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire."
5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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March 1943. "Chillicothe, Illinois. A helper engine is taken on for added power on a grade extending eight miles on the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe between Chillicothe, Illinois, and Fort Madison, Iowa." Medium-format negative by
Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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Circa 1901. "Bridge over the Susquehanna at Pittston, Pennsylvania."
8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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World's Fair: 1940 Submitted by jskirsch.... The General Motors Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1940.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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New York circa 1947. "Manhattan Savings Bank and Third Avenue elevated tracks." The bank, completed in 1924,
stands at the corner of Bowery and Canal on the Lower East Side. 4x5 acetate negative by John M. Fox.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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January 1943. "Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago and Hammond, Indiana.
The train pulls out of the Chicago & North Western yard." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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March 1943. "Sibley, Missouri. Passing one of the diesel passenger locomotives of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe."
Medium format nitrate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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Oct. 8, 1936. "H.O. Harrison Pontiac -- 'crack salesmen' and wives 'Going East' on streamliner City of San Francisco."
8x10 acetate negative.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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Circa 1900. "St. Clair River tunnel. Port Huron, Michigan." Time to move the camera! 8x10 inch glass negative,
Detroit Publishing Co.

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• Dec 23, 2023

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January 1943. "Freight operations on the Chicago & North Western between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa.
The crew, with exception of the fireman, chat while waiting for orders to pull out." Photo by Jack Delano.

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