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| Title | Section gang lifting rail |
| Creator | Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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| Date Created | 1948-05 |
| Extent (Original) | 1 negative : b&w
8 x 11 cm. (3 x 4 in.)
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| Medium (Original) | Negatives |
| Description | Six men lifting a section of rail onto a hand cart on which two other sections lie. Another man, only partly visible, is bending to the ground behind them. The Link-Belt Company building can be seen on the other side of the station behind the group of men. |
| Note 1 | Photograph titles supplied from Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Granger project scrapbook captions. |
| Note 2 | Selected photographs published in Granger country : a pictorial social history of the Burlington Railroad / edited by Lloyd Lewis and Stanley Pargellis. Boston : Little, Brown, 1949. |
| Type | StillImage |
| Subject 1 | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company -- Employees
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| Subject 2 | Railroad tracks -- Maintenance and repair
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| Subject 3 | Railroad rails
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| Subject 4 | Handcarts
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| Subject 5 | African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago
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| Subject 6 | Link-Belt Company
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| Subject 7 | Western Avenue Station (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Coverage (Spatial) 1 | Chicago (Ill.)
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| Coverage (Spatial) 2 | 41.85773541852229, -87.68531799316406 |
| Coverage (Temporal) | 1948 |
| Contributors 1 | Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949
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| Contributors 2 | Pargellis, Stanley McCrory, 1898-
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| Contributors 3 | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
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| Photo Number | Granger 187 |
| Collection | Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (Newberry Library) |
| Is Part Of | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Archives |
| Extent (Digital) | 6311 KB |
| Medium (Digital) | jpeg |
| Date Issued (Digital) | 2009-08-11 |
| Publisher | Newberry Library |
| Rights | All rights reserved by the Newberry Library. Permission to reproduce in any format must be requested in writing. Contact Photoduplication Department, Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610. Phone: 312-255-3566 E-mail: photoduplication@newberry.org |
| Filename | CBQGR187.jpg |
