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Wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway, May 30, 1911, near Marnego, Wash. – Vintage Print

Wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway, May 30, 1911, near Marnego, Wash., c1911 July 3. — historic photograph
Wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway, May 30, 1911, near Marnego, Wash., c1911 July 3.. Historic photograph 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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This rare historic photograph captures Wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway, May 30, 1911, near Marnego, Wash. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway, May 30, 1911, near Marnego, Wash.

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A train wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway near Marnego, Washington, on May 30, 1911, is the event this print records. The line was the Milwaukee Road's western extension, built to reach Pacific Northwest markets across the mountains, and derailments on steep, curving mountain grades were common in that period. The image was registered for copyright by a photographer named Cramer, which is why a copy reached the Library's collections. The date and place come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1911 July 3.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsJ157306 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Cramer. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Railroads--Disasters; Geogr.; Ph. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,099 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147794

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