Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2008.848.8.5Description
Black & white scanned copy of line of men working on a railroad track. In photo foreground is a set of tracks with car on photo left. Toward photo center are tracks being worked on. Fourteen men holding shovels but looking toward photographer are seen. A man stands between sets of tracks. Center left farther down tracks is another group of workers shoveling. An engine with "1478" on back is seen. A row of business buildings is seen in background. Sign on building on right reads: "City Restaurant" "Bank Exchange" "Saloon" toward photo left are building signs reading "Bakery" & "Candy Factory". There is a multilevel brick building with many windows, then a multilevel light colored building.
In lower right is white sticker with "77" written on tag.
Condition: Good. Top left & down left side damage copied from original.
Update 2015: Location is Front Street, near the the corner of 5th Street. 2 story building in background in the J A Frances Building. Bakery and Candy building is W. J. Smith Bakery and Confectioner. - Identified by Dan Kinneman.Collection
Photograph Collection