Steam Train

Photograph

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History Center of Lake Forest - Lake Bluff

Name/Title

Steam Train

Entry/Object ID

2002.320.5

Description

Sepia toned stereograph with a double photographic image mounted on yellow cardboard. Image shows a steam train standing at the Lake Forest train station with a wooden platform where people are standing. Verso handwritten "Engine Wisconsin, Chicago Northwestern Station, Lake Forest 1875. Taylor meat market?" Two square sections have been removed from the top layer of the yellow cardboard. In spite of "1875" date pencilled in on back, this stereoville was available for purchase c Feb 1871. See paper in Chicago & Northwestern Station clipping file. The clue to this dating is P. B. Greene's street address. On the front it is 85 State St. On the reverse it is 90 Lake St.. A Chicago Tribune ad showed he "removed" to the 85 State St address in Feb 1871. So he flipped over his preprinted stereoview cardboard and printed/had printed his new address. There are confirming details. Every other P. B. Greene cardstock https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=p+b+greene#/?scroll=35 has large radius corners except for the Maywood series which has these sharp corners. And every other cardstock is of a drab color except the bright yellow of the Maywood series. He used unused Maywood cardstock for this series.

Made/Created

Artist

P.B. Greene

Studio

85 State Street, Chicago

Date made

1871

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Stereograph

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects