Steel Viaduct over Des Moines River, C. & N. W. Railway, 1900-1910
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Artifact Overview
A Chicago & North Western Railway passenger train crossed the new Kate Shelley High Bridge near Boone, Iowa, in 1901. The viaduct's name honored a heroic teenage girl. During an 1881 thunderstorm, an earlier bridge at the site was damaged by a flood. Kate Shelley walked more than two miles through the storm to warn an approaching passenger train of the danger.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
1900-1910
Subject Date
1900-1910
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Photographed by William Henry Jackson. Published by Detroit Publishing Co., Detroit, Michigan
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.DPC.018584R
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Toning (Photography)
Color
Brown
Dimensions
Height: 7.125 in
Width: 9.25 in
Inscriptions
Inscriptions on back
In pencil: Steel viaduct on Des Moines River C& NW Ry. (added 6/3/05: Kate Shelly Bridge, Boone Co. Iowa) / Dup 638 (incorrect) / WHJ 639
In grease pencil: 013744 Dup (incorrect)
Photographer's negative number: 639
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