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General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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In the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 4 comments
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president. Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, June 3, 1860] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1860
- Date uploaded: 2009-02-04
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Matsuda (Waseda University, Japan) is safe; a re-enactment of a play from a baseball game with Chicago University, Marshall Field, May 1911] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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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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- 75 favorites
- 59,538 views
- 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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- 5 comments
- 165 favorites
- 54,955 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Arch at Twelfth St., Chicago, President Abraham Lincoln's hearse and young ladies (LOC)
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- 8 comments
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- 54,648 views
- Date taken: 1865
- Date uploaded: 2009-02-04
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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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- 85 favorites
- 53,867 views
- 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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- 3 comments
- 83 favorites
- 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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- 3 comments
- 101 favorites
- 50,989 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 42 favorites
- 50,290 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 4 comments
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- 49,754 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Wm. Lorimer (LOC)
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- 15 favorites
- 48,931 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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What's your favorite winter activity? (LOC)
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- 47,642 views
- Date uploaded: 2017-12-11
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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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- 0 comments
- 24 favorites
- 47,188 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 46,709 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 5 comments
- 74 favorites
- 46,097 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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G.O.P. Mascot (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 162 favorites
- 45,404 views
- Date taken: 1915
- Date uploaded: 2014-03-14
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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 61 favorites
- 45,291 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 41 favorites
- 45,170 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 8 favorites
- 45,122 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 55 favorites
- 45,040 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Isaac Yost of Company C, 118th Regiment Illinois Infantry, standing in uniform with bayoneted musket and revolver] (LOC)
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- 12 favorites
- 44,224 views
- Date taken: 2012
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-03
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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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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 23 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 2 comments
- 46 favorites
- 42,846 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 2 comments
- 62 favorites
- 42,683 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 34 favorites
- 42,232 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C & NW RR, a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
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- 41,875 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 1 comment
- 85 favorites
- 41,078 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 64 favorites
- 40,746 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Looking toward the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard. The trestle runs from the ice house to the yard. The old cars in the foreground are used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help. Town of Melrose Park is in back
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- 22 favorites
- 39,598 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Chicago - Coliseum (exterior) (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1912
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 37 favorites
- 38,782 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 3 comments
- 47 favorites
- 38,679 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 3 comments
- 41 favorites
- 38,588 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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