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[Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico] – Antique Wall Art

[Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico], [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
[Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico], [between 1880 and 1897]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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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Step back in time with [Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Lettering reading "Central Mexicano" on the train identifies it as a Mexican Central Railway train, a line that ran north from Mexico City to El Paso, Texas, after its main route opened in 1884. Under Porfirio Díaz's government, foreign capital was welcomed into railway building, and the line carried ore, goods and passengers across terrain that had been difficult to travel by land. The negative is a 5 by 7 inch glass plate from the Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed Mexico and the American West in the late 1800s. The catalog attributes it to that company by comparing it with negatives bearing similar numbers, so the individual photographer is not known.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Attribution based on negatives with similar numbers. On train: Central Mexicano. S S" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 30155. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 725 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76756

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