Operated by Union Railroad Elevator Company, Toledo, Ohio – Vintage Print
(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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Operated by Union Railroad Elevator Company, Toledo, Ohio comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Operated by Union Railroad Elevator Company, Toledo, Ohio
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Toledo's Union Railroad Elevator Company is the specific subject here, a grain-handling operation on the Maumee River shoreline in northwestern Ohio. This 1882 color lithograph, printed by the Calvert Lithographing Company in Detroit, was made as an advertisement, and it shows the elevator alongside ships, boats, carts and wagons that moved grain in and out of the city. Toledo was a major grain port in the 1880s, with rail lines and lake shipping converging at the elevators, so the scene captures how crops from the interior passed through the city on their way to eastern and overseas markets.
| Created / published | Detroit, Mich. : The Calvert Lith. Co., 1882. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1880-1890.Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | Grain elevators--Ohio--Toledo--1880-1890. Grain industry--Ohio--Toledo--1880-1890. Ships--Ohio--Toledo--1880-1890. Boats--Ohio--Toledo--1880-1890. Warehouses--Ohio--Toledo--1880-1890. Carts & wagons--Ohio--Toledo--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,460 × 1,155 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219329 |
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