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| Title | Western Avenue yards |
| Creator | Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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| Date Created | 1948-05; 1948-06 |
| 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 | Eight members of a section gang, four standing on a flat bed railroad car, four on the ground, loading sections of rail onto a flat-bed car. |
| 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, Burliington & Quincy Railroad Company -- Employees
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| Subject 2 | African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago
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| Subject 3 | Railroad tracks -- Maintenance and repair
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| Subject 4 | Railroad rails
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| Subject 5 | Western Avenue Yard (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Subject 6 | Railroad yards -- Illinois -- Chicago
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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 2584 |
| Collection | Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (Newberry Library) |
| Is Part Of | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Archives |
| Extent (Digital) | 834 KB |
| Medium (Digital) | jpeg |
| Date Issued (Digital) | 2010-03-05 |
| 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 | CBQGR2584.jpg |
