Three-level railway coach / Wide World photo. – Historic Photograph Print
(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 rare historic photograph captures Three-level railway coach / Wide World photo. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Three-level railway coach / Wide World photo.
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Few passenger cars of this era stacked three levels, which makes this Frankfurt view stand out from the usual coach photographs. Taken in 1951, it shows rolling stock in West Germany only a few years after the Second World War. The Federal Republic had just created its national railway, the Deutsche Bundesbahn, in 1949, and the country was rebuilding a network that had suffered heavy damage in the war. The Wide World label marks it as a wire-service picture, the kind of image newspapers ran to show the postwar recovery of German industry and transport.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1951 |
| Subjects | Railroad passenger cars--Germany (West)--Frankfurt am Main--1950-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,250 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177156 |
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