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| Title | Signal tower at Western Ave. station |
| Creator | Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
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| Extent (Original) | 1 negative : b&w
8 x 11 cm. (3 x 4 in.)
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| Medium (Original) | Negatives |
| Description | View of the Western Ave. station from the platform, looking down the tracks. Steam from a locomotive billows upwards, as a train on the far tracks heads into the station. Several signal towers can be seen in the near distance. |
| 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 Station (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Subject 2 | Railroad stations -- Illinois -- Chicago
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| Subject 3 | Railroad signal towers -- Illinois -- Chicago
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| Subject 4 | Steam locomotives -- 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 189 |
| Collection | Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (Newberry Library) |
| Is Part Of | Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Archives |
| Extent (Digital) | 1040 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 | CBQGR189.jpg |
