Largest electric locomotive in world, 6/25 – Antique Wall Art
![Largest electric locomotive in world, 6/25, [1924] June 25. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/74/7487da7014d0-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Largest electric locomotive in world, 6/25, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Largest electric locomotive in world, 6/25
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Part of a numbered series of 25 views, this glass negative shows a locomotive the title bills as the largest electric engine in the world. The National Photo Company made it around 1924, a period when railroads were turning to electric power, mainly to clear smoke from long tunnels and crowded terminal approaches. Builders were competing to show off heavier and more powerful machines, and photographs like this helped publicize that work. The negative has streaks and other blemishes from deterioration in its original coating, so some fine detail may be obscured.
| Created / published | [1924] June 25. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date (year) from negatives in same range. Two negs with number 31262; marked with B. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch six. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,948 × 4,255 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-255201 |
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