High Bridge, near Harlan, Ia. – 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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High Bridge, near Harlan, Ia. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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High Bridge, near Harlan, Ia.
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Harlan, the seat of Shelby County in western Iowa, is the setting for this c1910 print of High Bridge, a railroad span that carried the Chicago Great Western Railroad across the open country near town. The line, which its operators also called the "Maple Leaf Route," ran through the state's farmland and linked small Iowa communities to larger markets, so a bridge like this one was a visible sign of the rail network that shaped rural life in the early twentieth century. Railroad photographs of this period often documented such structures as engineering works, and the picture is worth a closer look for the trestle design and the flat landscape around it.
| Created / published | c1910. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910. |
| Subjects | Chicago Great Western Railroad Company--1910. Railroads--Iowa--Harlan--1910. Railroad bridges--Iowa--Harlan--1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,024 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164832 |
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