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[Chicago and Alton Railroad chair car] – Historic Print

[Chicago and Alton Railroad chair car], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Chicago and Alton Railroad chair car], [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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Chicago and Alton Railroad chair car]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Interior views of railroad coaches were a common subject for the Detroit Publishing Company, and this one shows a chair car on the Chicago and Alton Railroad, a line that carried passengers between Chicago and St. Louis. Chair cars were coaches fitted with individual reclining armchairs, usually sold with a surcharge above the standard fare, and they offered a more comfortable seat for daytime travel. The company's photographers produced views like this for catalogs and promotional booklets. This negative records a photograph copyrighted in 1900, so it is a copy of an earlier image rather than an original exposure.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 11 x 14 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Reproductions.
NotesTitle from jacket. Photograph of a photo copyrighted 1900 by Detroit Publishing Company; cf. negative D4-42210. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 045039. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77840

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