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- Detroit Photographic Company Special Railcar on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, 1899 - Detroit Photographic Company promoted its thousands of images -- sold in the form of color postcards, prints and photo albums -- with railroad cars converted into mobile galleries. The company's photographs depicted everything from city streets to natural landscapes, and they were distinguished by the special "Photochrom" colorization process that made black-and-white images look like color photographs.
- 1899
- Collections - Artifact
Detroit Photographic Company Special Railcar on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, 1899
Detroit Photographic Company promoted its thousands of images -- sold in the form of color postcards, prints and photo albums -- with railroad cars converted into mobile galleries. The company's photographs depicted everything from city streets to natural landscapes, and they were distinguished by the special "Photochrom" colorization process that made black-and-white images look like color photographs.
- Chicago and Northwestern Railway Advertising Broadside, 1868 - President Lincoln designated Council Bluffs, Iowa, as the official eastern terminus of the First Transcontinental Railroad. (Though the Missouri River wasn't bridged until 1872, making Omaha, Nebraska, the effective terminus until then.) The transcontinental route connected with the rest of the eastern U.S. railroad network via the Chicago & North Western Railway, completed to Council Bluffs from Chicago in 1867.
- 1868
- Collections - Artifact
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Advertising Broadside, 1868
President Lincoln designated Council Bluffs, Iowa, as the official eastern terminus of the First Transcontinental Railroad. (Though the Missouri River wasn't bridged until 1872, making Omaha, Nebraska, the effective terminus until then.) The transcontinental route connected with the rest of the eastern U.S. railroad network via the Chicago & North Western Railway, completed to Council Bluffs from Chicago in 1867.
- Detroit Photographic Company Special Railcar on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, 1899 - Detroit Photographic Company promoted its thousands of images -- sold in the form of color postcards, prints and photo albums -- with railroad cars converted into mobile galleries. The company's photographs depicted everything from city streets to natural landscapes, and they were distinguished by the special "Photochrom" colorization process that made black-and-white images look like color photographs.
- 1899
- Collections - Artifact
Detroit Photographic Company Special Railcar on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, 1899
Detroit Photographic Company promoted its thousands of images -- sold in the form of color postcards, prints and photo albums -- with railroad cars converted into mobile galleries. The company's photographs depicted everything from city streets to natural landscapes, and they were distinguished by the special "Photochrom" colorization process that made black-and-white images look like color photographs.
- Chicago & Northwestern Railway Viaduct over Des Moines River, Boone, Iowa, 1901 - 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.
- 1901
- Collections - Artifact
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Viaduct over Des Moines River, Boone, Iowa, 1901
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.
- Steel Viaduct over Des Moines River, C. & N. W. Railway, 1900-1910 - 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.
- 1900-1910
- Collections - Artifact
Steel Viaduct over Des Moines River, C. & N. W. Railway, 1900-1910
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.