Hand-colored photograph of steam locomotive hauling freight train – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Hand-colored photograph of steam locomotive hauling freight train. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Hand-colored photograph of steam locomotive hauling freight train
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Steam locomotives hauling freight were the workhorses of American railroading for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and this hand-colored view captures one of them pulling a line of freight cars across open country. Photographers of the period often tinted their prints by hand with thin layers of pigment, adding color to engine boilers, smoke, and signal details that the black-and-white process could not render. Such images were popular as souvenirs and as advertising for railroad companies, which wanted to show off their powerful engines and busy lines. Notice how the smoke plume and the cars trailing behind convey the weight and motion of a freight run.
| Original scan | 1,200 × 394 px · prints to 4 × 1 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | c489r |
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