[Railroad accident near Chatsworth, Illinois, Aug. 11, 1887] / Johnson, photo, Pullman. – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Railroad accident near Chatsworth, Illinois, Aug. 11, 1887] / Johnson, photo, Pullman., c1887. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7e/7e5385680f17-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: [Railroad accident near Chatsworth, Illinois, Aug. 11, 1887] / Johnson, photo, Pullman., preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Railroad accident near Chatsworth, Illinois, Aug. 11, 1887] / Johnson, photo, Pullman.
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The record places this view at a wreck near Chatsworth, Illinois, on August 11, 1887, a head-on railroad disaster that killed dozens of passengers and became one of the deadliest rail accidents in the state's history. The photographer, T.S. Johnson of Pullman, Illinois, registered the image for copyright, which suggests he meant to sell it to a public eager for news of the crash. The print is a collotype, a photomechanical process that reproduced continuous tones without the coarse dots of a halftone, so the twisted cars and crowded wreckage keep their detail. Because such views were sold to newspapers and the public, they now serve as a record of how the disaster looked to people at the time.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : collotype. |
| Genre | Collotypes 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 22939S U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by T.S. Johnson, Pullman, Ills. |
| Subjects | Railroad accidents--Illinois--Chatsworth--1880-1890. Disasters--Illinois--Chatsworth--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,265 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-185190 |
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