[The locomotive William Crooks] – Vintage Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures [The locomotive William Crooks] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[The locomotive William Crooks]
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Set beside a modern oil-burning mountain-type engine, the William Crooks was built in 1861 and first ran in 1862 on the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, a predecessor of the Great Northern. The pairing makes the point: two locomotives separated by about six decades of development, with an ox and cart on the tracks in the foreground. The print is dated to the 1920s and may have been used in Great Northern publicity for its New Oriental Limited passenger train.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Genre | in front of mammoth modern oil burning mountain type engine |
| Notes | [192-?] |
| Subjects | ox and cart along tracks.") The William Crooks was manufactured in 1861 and first run on St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (predecessor of the Great Northern) in 1862. Photo possibly used as part of Great Northern publicity for their "New Oriental Limited" passenger train during the 1920s. Caption card tracings: Transportation; Railroads--Locomotives; Shelf." |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 1,875 px · prints to 10 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-127747 |
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