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| Title | Removing frogs from flat car-Western Avenue yards |
| Alternative Title | Western Avenue yards |
| Creator | Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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| Date Created | 1948-05 |
| Extent (Original) | 1 negative : b&w
6 x 9 cm. (2 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
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| Medium (Original) | Negatives |
| Description | Two men using tongs to lift rails while a third man looks on. Boxcars are lined up on nearby tracks to the left. Buildings of a Chicago neighborhood can be seen to the right. |
| 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 rails
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| Subject 3 | African Americans -- Chicago -- Illinois
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| Subject 4 | Western Avenue Station (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Coverage (Spatial) 1 | Chicago (Ill.)
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| Coverage (Spatial) 2 | 41.85779934552825, -87.6853609085083 |
| 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 2582 |
| Collection | Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (Newberry Library) |
| Is Part Of | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Archives |
| Extent (Digital) | 4284 KB |
| Medium (Digital) | jpeg |
| 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 | CBQGR2582.jpg |
