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| Title | Railway Express terminal on CB&Q tracks |
| 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 | A line of trucks backed up against loading dock bays on the first floor of a two-story building. One truck is driving either in or out. The trucks all bear the Railway Express logo and have advertisements for Camel cigarettes on their sides. The taller building just beyond bears the slogan "Everywhere west." |
| 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 | Railway Express Agency
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| Subject 2 | Warehouses -- Illinois -- Chicago
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| Subject 3 | Trucks -- Illinois -- Chicago
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| Coverage (Spatial) 1 | Chicago (Ill.)
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| Coverage (Spatial) 2 | 41.8673427, -87.6390144 |
| 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 200 |
| Collection | Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (Newberry Library) |
| Is Part Of | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Archives |
| Extent (Digital) | 7405 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 | CBQGR200.jpg |
