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ACME Swing Co.

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Seven men, six of them white and one Asian American, stand on railroad tracks below an overpass wearing dark colored short-sleeved shirts that button...

Date Published
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Aerial view of a railway yard

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Aerial view of a highway passing over a railway yard. Trains are parked along several tracks. There are houses at the bottom of the photo.

Date Published
1986
Member of
Robert F. Barrett Collection

Aerial view of a railway yard

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Aerial view of a highway passing over a railway yard. Trains are parked along several tracks. There are houses at the bottom of the photo.

Date Published
1986
Member of
Robert F. Barrett Collection

Aerial view of a railway yard

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Aerial view of a railway yard near Kansas City. Two trains are on the tracks. A bridge passes over the tracks. There are warehouses on the other side...

Date Published
1986
Member of
Robert F. Barrett Collection

Aerial view of highway construction

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Aerial view of highway construction near Kansas City. A railway yard is above the highway. There are trains parked on all the tracks. There are...

Date Published
1986
Member of
Robert F. Barrett Collection

Barking Tribe

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Barking Tribe, a rock band comprised of four white men, sit and stand behind a railroad tie by the railroad tracks. Railcars are visible behind them...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy coal chute

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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy coal chute in the Omaha Nebraska railyard. A Canadian Pacific railcar is seen on the tracks. Behind the coal chute are...

Member of
J.E. Lynn Railroad Memorabilia Collection

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy covered bridge

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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy covered bridge one and a half miles west of Streator, Illinois. Photo taken at start of bridge following tracks into the...

Member of
J.E. Lynn Railroad Memorabilia Collection

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway locomotive #2947

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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway locomotive #2947. Location not given; likely Kansas City, Missouri, however.

Date Published
1945 to 1950
Member of
J.E. Lynn Railroad Memorabilia Collection

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway locomotive #5104

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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway locomotive #5104 on tracks in North Kansas City, Missouri.

Member of
J.E. Lynn Railroad Memorabilia Collection

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway locomotive #800

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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway locomotive #800. Likely in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
1945 to 1950
Member of
J.E. Lynn Railroad Memorabilia Collection

Colorado and Southern locomotive #331 pulling a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy train

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Colorado and Southern locomotive #331 pulling an unidentified train of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy from Edgemont to Deadwood, South Dakota; photo...

Member of
J.E. Lynn Railroad Memorabilia Collection

Colorado and Southern railroad train #9

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Colorado and Southern #9 on the tracks at the NYC Fair. Another train is partially seen behind it.

Member of
J.E. Lynn Railroad Memorabilia Collection

Crew laying tracks

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Crew laying track for the Chicago and North Western Railway Company's Nelson-Peoria Branch near Buda, Illinois. The men seem to be largely white and a...

Member of
J.E. Lynn Railroad Memorabilia Collection

Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company locomotive #557

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Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company locomotive #557. Likely in Texas somewhere.

Date Published
1945 to 1950
Member of
J.E. Lynn Railroad Memorabilia Collection

Kent Duchaine

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Kent Duchaine sits on a railroad track resting a resonator guitar on his lap as he plays it with a slide. Printed in the...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Little Buster

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Little Buster, guitarist for the Little Buster and the Soul Brothers blues band, stand on railroad tracks with a big smile as he plays an electric...

Date Published
1995
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Station

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Exterior shot of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Station in Parsons, Kansas.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

New York Central and Hudson River Railroad train #999

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New York Central and Hudson River car #999 displayed on tracks with other, partially seen, trains at the New York Fair.

Member of
J.E. Lynn Railroad Memorabilia Collection

R.L. Burnside with Jon Neremberg

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Harmonica player Jon Beckley Morris [i.e. Nermberg] faces away from R.L. Burnside as he plays a harmonica. They are standing on railroad tracks, and...

Date Published
1985
January-1986
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Railroad tracks and apartment buildings

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A set of railroad tracks next to a series of apartment building, the backs of which are seen.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Ruthie Foster and Cyd Cassone

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Blues guitarist and vocalist Ruthie Foster (left), in a split photograph, sits on a suitcase on railroad tracks and plays an acoustic guitar. In the...

Date Published
1997
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Soldiers on horses by a train track

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Soldiers on horseback riding along train tracks away from the camera. The horses have kicked up a lot of dust.

Date Published
1891 to 1900
Member of
Jacob L. Loose Collection

Unidentified man

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An unidentified white man lies on a railroad tie between railroad tracks, closes his eyes and crosses his arms over his chest as an electric blues...

Date Published
1985
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Union Station abandoned tracks and N. Waiting Room soon to be part of Pershing Sq. Development

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West side of Union Station showing Amtrak trains, Western Auto building in background.

Date Published
August-1976
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

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Member of

  • J.E. Lynn Railroad Memorabilia Collection (11)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (7)
  • Robert F. Barrett Collection (5)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)
  • Jacob L. Loose Collection (1)
  • L. Perry Cookingham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (27)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (21)
  • Gelatin silver prints (20)
  • Snapshots (11)
  • Publicity photographs (7)
  • Color photographs (6)
  • Aerial photographs (5)
  • Aerial views (5)
  • Slides (5)
  • Group portraits (4)
  • Portrait photographs (4)
  • Architectural photographs (2)
  • Albumen prints (1)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • Cityscapes (1)
  • Film transparencies (1)
  • Landscape photographs (1)
  • Stereographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1981-1990 (7)
  • 1991-2000 (5)
  • 2001-2010 (2)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • Railroad trains (11)
  • Railroad cars (9)
  • Locomotives (7)
  • Railroad yards (7)
  • Men, White (6)
  • Guitarists (5)
  • Blues musicians (4)
  • Buildings (4)
  • Guitar (4)
  • Roads (4)
  • African American men (2)
  • Bands (Music) (2)
  • Bridges (2)
  • Housing (2)
  • Railroad stations (2)
  • Singers (2)
  • African American women (1)
  • Apartment houses (1)
  • Asian American men (1)
  • Building sites (1)
  • Central business districts (1)
  • Coal chutes (Railroads) (1)
  • Covered bridges (1)
  • Drum (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Electric lines (1)
  • Elevated highways (1)
  • Factories (1)
  • Harmonica (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Horses (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Railroad bridges (1)
  • Railroad construction workers (1)
  • Railroads--Design and construction (1)
  • Railroads--Employees (1)
  • Rock musicians (1)
  • Skyscrapers (1)
  • Soldiers (1)
  • Storage and moving trade (1)
  • Swing (Music) (1)
  • Trucks (1)
  • Warehouses (1)
  • Women (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Railroad tracks (27)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (5)
  • Downtown (Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (1)
  • New Orleans (La.) (1)
  • Parsons (Kan.) (1)
  • West Bottoms (1)

Subjects, People

  • Burnside, R. L. (Rural L.), 1926-2005 (1)
  • Cassone, Cyd (1)
  • DuChaine, Kent (1)
  • Forehand, Edward (1)
  • Foster, Ruthie (1)
  • Morris, Jon, 1955- (1)

Date Published

  • 1986 (5)
  • 1945/1950 (3)
  • 2000 (3)
  • 1985 (2)
  • 1991 (2)
  • 1891/1900 (1)
  • 1921 (1)
  • 1930 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1976-08 (1)
  • 1986-01 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 1997 (1)
  • 2004 (1)

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