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In the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad conductor George E. Burton and engineer J.W. Edwards comparing time before pulling out of Corwith railroad yard for Chillicothe, Illinois; Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, tank cars going over the hump at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR; Roy Nelin, a box packer in the roundhouse at the Proviso yard (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance. Chicago, Ill (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, entered war work after their husbands joined the service, Glenview, Ill. They assemble bands for blood transfusion bottles at Baxter Laboratories. Mrs. Burnham is the mother of two children (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Workers at the roundhouse of the C & NW RR Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Freight Depot of the U.S. Army consolidating station, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Laboratory worker at the research laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yard, examining paint samples used on freight cars and coaches of the railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill, C&NWRR. William London has been a railroad worker 25 years - now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Ill. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide
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- 53,191 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Santa Fe R.R. freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Corwith yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 50,989 views
- Date taken: 1939
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C&NWRR, towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst, Ill., at the Proviso yard. He operates a set of retarders and switches at the hump, Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Belt Railway, looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, taken from bridge of hump, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she
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- 47,188 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the rip tracks at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. (LOC)
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- 45,291 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Indiana Harbor Belt R.R., switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stockyards, Calumet City (near Chicago), Ill. (LOC)
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- 45,170 views
- Date taken: 1939
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View of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad freight house. A long line of truck trailers are loading and unloading goods, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 45,122 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Santa Fe RR freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Corwith yard, Chicago, Ill., Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- 45,040 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Locomotives lined up for coal, sand and water at the coaling station in the 40th Street yard of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 43,998 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)
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- 27 favorites
- 43,590 views
- Date taken: 1939
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One of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. On the right are three of the west coast streamliners, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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John Sabados washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. A C and O R.R. caboose. the C and O is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R (LOC)
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- 42,846 views
- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 42,683 views
- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 42,232 views
- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switchman demonstrating signal with a "fusee" - used at twilight and dawn - when visibility is poor. This signal means "stop." Calumet City, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switch engine in yard near Calumet park stockyards, Calumet City (near Chicago), Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water Street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Trucks unloading at the inbound freight house of the Illinois Central Railroad, South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of yard and some of the locomotive shop of the C & NW RR at 40th Street. On the tracks on the right are three streamliners, crack trains, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 29 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
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Illinois Central R.R., freight cars at the South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. The C & O and Nickel Plate Railroads lease part of this terminal from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)
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- 37,579 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she
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- 14 favorites
- 37,486 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives, Glenview, Ill. She turns in her profits to war
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- 19 favorites
- 37,002 views
- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, railroad worker cultivating the small Victory garden in the Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switchman demonstrating signal with a "fusee" - used at twilight and dawn - when visibility is poor. This signal means "back up." Calumet City, Ill. (LOC)
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- 64 favorites
- 34,851 views
- Date taken: 1939
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John Paulinski, car inspector, blue flagging a train for inspection, at Corwith yard, Santa Fe RR trip, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 16 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, railroad workers cultivating a little Victory garden at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 33,847 views
- Date taken: 1939
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General view of one of the classification yards of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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