Chicago & Northwestern Railway Viaduct over Des Moines River, Boone, Iowa, 1901
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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
1901
Subject Date
1901
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Photographed by William H. Jackson; published by Detroit Publishing Co., Detroit, Michigan.
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.DPC.013744
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Toning (Photography)
Color
Brown
Sepia (Color)
Dimensions
Height: 7 in
Width: 8.875 in (Attached to P.DPC.010584= 17.625")
Inscriptions
On back of image, handwritten in pencil:
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER DES MOINES RIVER, BOONE IOWA
On lower edge right front, small embossed DPC circular trade mark:
COPYRIGHT 1901 BY DETROIT PHOTOGRAPHIC CO.
On verso in grease pencil: 7x9-013744
Photographer's negative number: WHJ 638
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