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[Chicago and Alton Railroad day coach] – Historic Reproduction

[Chicago and Alton Railroad day coach], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Chicago and Alton Railroad day coach], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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[Chicago and Alton Railroad day coach] 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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A day coach of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, its door lettered with the Pullman name, is the subject of this large glass negative. The Chicago and Alton ran passenger service between Chicago and St. Louis, and Pullman built many of the cars that carried its travelers. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made photographic views of railroads, resorts and cities around the turn of the twentieth century, produced the image. This plate is a copy of an earlier photograph, so it records a published view of the car as much as the car itself.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 11 x 14 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Reproductions.
NotesTitle from jacket. Photograph of a photo copyrighted 1900 by Detroit Publishing Company; cf. negative D4-42206. Pullman [...]" on door. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 045042. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 779 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77843

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