Office U. Pacific Railway Co. E. D. Wyandotte Kansas 286 miles west of St. Louis Mo. – Antique 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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A window into the past: Office U. Pacific Railway Co. E. D. Wyandotte Kansas 286 miles west of St. Louis Mo., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Office U. Pacific Railway Co. E. D. Wyandotte Kansas 286 miles west of St. Louis Mo.
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The office shown here sat in Wyandotte, Kansas, a Missouri River town that stood at the edge of the frontier in 1867. Its caption measures the site as 286 miles west of St. Louis, which ties the building to the railroad's route as it pushed west across Kansas. Stereo cards like this one were sold to the public as a way to see the expanding country, so the view doubles as a record of how the railroad presented itself to eastern audiences. The building itself is plain and functional, typical of the company's early field offices, and it is worth noticing for that reason: it marks a working railroad headquarters rather than a grand station.
| Created / published | 1867 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | No. 16 1/2. Title from item. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway Eastern Division. · Carson Marian S. collector. |
| Subjects | Union Pacific Railway Eastern Division--Buildings--Kansas--Wyandotte County--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,608 × 2,157 px · prints to 15 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-268431 |
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