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| Title | Loading wheat into baxcars at small railroad station near Vernon |
| Creator | Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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| Date Created | 1948-06 |
| Extent (Original) | 1 negative : b&w
8 x 11 cm. (3 x 4 in.)
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| Medium (Original) | Negatives |
| Description | A man is shoveling wheat off the bed of a truck into a bin, where it will be picked up by a bucket conveyor and poured through a chute into a boxcar (MILW 711837) that has its doors boarded up. Another man watches while another man adjusts the belt. |
| 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 | Grain-handling machinery -- Texas -- Vernon
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| Subject 2 | Wheat
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| Subject 3 | Farmers -- Texas -- Vernon
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| Subject 4 | Freight cars -- Texas -- Vernon
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| Coverage (Spatial) 1 | Vernon (Tex.)
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| Coverage (Spatial) 2 | 34.1545306, -99.2650804 |
| 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 2603 |
| Collection | Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (Newberry Library) |
| Is Part Of | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Archives |
| Extent (Digital) | 1023 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 | CBQGR2603.jpg |
