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The General, Union Station, Chattanooga, Tenn. – Vintage Print

The General, Union Station, Chattanooga, Tenn., c[1907] — historic photograph
The General, Union Station, Chattanooga, Tenn., c[1907]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(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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The General, Union Station, Chattanooga, Tenn. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The locomotive in this view is *The General*, the engine that Union raiders seized at Big Shanty, Georgia, in April 1862 in the episode known as the Great Locomotive Chase. Its later career as a preserved war relic brought it to exhibition in several Southern cities, and this interior view of Chattanooga's Union Station shows it displayed indoors rather than in service. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made the photograph around 1907, was known for documenting American towns, rail lines and tourist destinations, and its 8 x 10 inch glass negatives captured fine detail. Look closely at the engine's boiler, cab and rail fittings, which show how a wartime locomotive looked when it had become a public attraction.

Created / publishedc[1907]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 019987. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsRailroad locomotives. Railroad stations. Interiors.United States--Tennessee--Chattanooga.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63289

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