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Images of freight cars, with rail company logos and marks, workers, and freight items.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Collection consists of marketing and promotional photographs used by the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway. Subjects include railroad stations and yards; railroad tracks; rolling stock; train wrecks; railroad bridge construction and maintenance; and railway personnel. There are also photographs of towns and landscapes in Oregon, Washington, and California through which the railroads passed, including images of the construction of the Bonneville Dam, the Columbia River and Columbia River...

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Images of locomotives, rail stations, yards, workers, logos and marks.

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Images of locomotives, rail stations, yards, workers, passengers, logos and marks.

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Images of tracks, cars, and signals depot.

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Images of rail cars, stations, passengers, logos and marks.

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Images featuring passengers, attendants, first-class seats and lounges, coach seats, dining and sleeping cars.

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Group and individual portaits and candid images of executives, secretaries, and other workers, mainly office and urban settings.

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Images of rail construction. Bridges, tracks, scaffolding, cranes, bulldozers, tractors, landscapes, workers.

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Interior views of rail yard industrial spaces. Workers, machinery, architecture, cars and locomotives.