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[Mexico - Railroad scene: The Look near San Jose] – Antique Print

[Mexico - Railroad scene: The Look near San Jose], [1895?] — historic photograph
[Mexico - Railroad scene: The Look near San Jose], [1895?]. 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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This view is titled "The Look near San Jose," and its caption card identifies the scene as a railroad line in Mexico, where the track runs past a point the card calls "the Look." The photograph is credited to William Henry Jackson, an American photographer known for his western survey work and for images of Mexico made as railways expanded there in the 1880s and 1890s. The date of about 1895 is marked with a question mark, so it is an estimate. Still, the picture fits a period when American and Mexican rail lines were opening remote country to trade and travel, and it shows how engineers laid track through hilly terrain.

Created / published[1895?]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto by W.H. Jackson. 3985. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,172 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125073

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