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| Title | Cleaning "Empire Builder" at 14th St. passenger yards |
| 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 | Two men on ladders washing windows on the Empire Builder's "Sperry Glacier 1178" car. Other men up and down the platform are performing other tasks on various cars. One man, who is standing next to one of the window washers, is cleaning out a large funnel that he has pulled from the side of the car, dumping its contents into a wheelbarrow. |
| 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 cars -- Maintenance and repair
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| Subject 3 | Empire Builder (Train)
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| Subject 4 | 14th Street Yard (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Coverage (Spatial) 1 | Chicago (Ill.)
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| Coverage (Spatial) 2 | 41.863680356701074, -87.63695240020752 |
| 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 207 |
| Collection | Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (Newberry Library) |
| Is Part Of | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Archives |
| Extent (Digital) | 7511 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 | CBQGR207.jpg |
