Small locomotive used to draw cane cars 2 ft. gauge, India – Antique Wall Art
![Small locomotive used to draw cane cars 2 ft. gauge, India, [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/17/17bdc7b695b9-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Small locomotive used to draw cane cars 2 ft. gauge, India, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Small locomotive used to draw cane cars 2 ft. gauge, India
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A small steam locomotive pulls a line of cane cars on a two-foot gauge track in India, a narrow width often chosen for hauling sugar cane from the fields to processing mills. Light railways like this were common on Indian sugar estates in the early twentieth century, since narrow track could be laid cheaply through cultivated land. The glass negative was made by the National Photo Company, a commercial firm that photographed places around the world, and it dates to between 1910 and 1920. Streaks and blemishes on the glass come from deterioration of its original coating, which is worth keeping in mind when judging fine detail.
| Created / published | [between 1910 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,836 × 5,359 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-260189 |
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