Part of the Illinois Central Railroad at Chicago – Vintage 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 antique engraving of Part of the Illinois Central Railroad at Chicago brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Part of the Illinois Central Railroad at Chicago
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This wood engraving shows the Illinois Central Railroad's facilities in Chicago, with grain elevators rising beside the tracks, a pairing that captures how the city's rail and grain trades had grown together by the late 1850s. The Illinois Central, chartered with a large federal land grant, pushed its line into Chicago in the 1850s, and the company's stations and yards became part of the waterfront that moved Midwestern grain east. The image appeared in Harper's Weekly, the New York illustrated newspaper that brought such scenes of growing American cities to a national readership. Catalog notes for the print are unverified, so the exact vantage point and date should be checked against other sources.
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1859 |
| Subjects | Wood engraving in Harper's Weekly, 1859. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ill.--Chicago--Views--1859; Grain elevators; Railroads--Stations--Ill.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,061 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139526 |
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