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| Title | Railroad cars at siding for new market near 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 | View of the Western Avenue yards, looking northeast towards downtown Chicago, visible in the distance. Freight cars line many tracks next to a covered platform. Another set of tracks on the left curves around and crosses a bridge just beyond the platform. A factory is visible in the distance and residential buildings sit just beyond the platform, south of the tracks. |
| 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 | Western Avenue Yard (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Subject 2 | Railroad yards -- Illinois -- Chicago
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| Subject 3 | Freight cars -- Chicago -- Illinois
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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 2588 |
| Collection | Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (Newberry Library) |
| Is Part Of | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Archives |
| Extent (Digital) | 943 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 | CBQGR2588.jpg |
