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[Observation platform, Chicago and Alton Railroad] – Antique Print

[Observation platform, Chicago and Alton Railroad], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Observation platform, Chicago and Alton Railroad], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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A rear observation platform on a Chicago and Alton Railroad train is the subject here, and the catalog notes suggest it may be an observation car, a feature railroads promoted to passengers who wanted to watch the landscape recede behind them. The Chicago and Alton ran between Chicago and St. Louis. This is a glass copy negative made from a print first copyrighted in 1900 by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sold travel views of American places to a wide public.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 11 x 14 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Reproductions.
NotesTitle from jacket; possibly a railroad observation car. 42211" on negative. Photograph of a photo copyrighted 1900 by Detroit Publishing Company; cf. negative D4-42211. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 045040. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 770 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77841

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