Loading railway express car – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Loading railway express car. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Workers are shown loading goods into a railway express car, a view of the freight handling that kept parcels and shipments moving alongside passenger trains. The picture is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, the New York photo agency run by George Grantham Bain, which supplied news pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, so the exact year is unknown, but the glass plate format places it within the period when Bain's staff relied on this medium. Express cars were a common sight at American stations of that era, and the scene shows the manual labor behind rail shipping.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,170 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-38962 |
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