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[Locomotive number 501 and tender, Chicago & Alton railroad] – Vintage Print

[Locomotive number 501 and tender, Chicago & Alton railroad], [1900] — historic image
[Locomotive number 501 and tender, Chicago & Alton railroad], [1900]. Historic image from the Chicago 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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A window into the past: [Locomotive number 501 and tender, Chicago & Alton railroad], preserved in this historic image. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A locomotive numbered 501, pulling its tender, is the subject of this 1900 view, one of the railroad portraits made for the Chicago & Alton, a line that served the Midwest out of Chicago. The image is a glass transparency rather than a paper print, so it was meant to be viewed by light passing through it, a format that suited the bright, detailed record of steam power in the period. It comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for large-format views of American places and industry around the turn of the century. Its catalog number appears on the negative, and the glass was later donated to the Library of Congress through the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949.

Created / published[1900]
Medium1 transparency : glass ; 7 x 21 in.
GenreGlass transparencies.
NotesTitle devised. 46045 special" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 447 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-80292

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