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Identifier	RG0600-0001
Title	Train and train platform
Contributors	Donor, Bessie Hamaker
Description	Steam engine train stopped at a train platform with people.
Background	During the 1880s, the use of glass as a transparent and stable base for dry photographic emulsions replaced the collodion wet plate process. Glass was the first widely implemented medium used to create a transparent photographic negative. The end product became known as the glass plate negative and became obsolete as the camera and the photograph processes evolved over time. Commonly used into the 1920s, glass plate negatives prefigured the more durable, affordable, and familiar flexible film negative.
Source	4 x 5 ; black-and-white negatives
Type	Image
Language	English
Keywords	Railroads--Texas--Houston ; Railroad stations--Texas--Houston ; Locomotives ; Steam locomotives
Geographic Subject Terms	Irish Bend Island Yard ; Houston Shipyard (Houston, Tex.)
Era	1940s
Publisher	Electronic version published by Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas.
Collection	RG0600 Houston Shipbuilding Corporation Photographs
HPL Location	Houston Shipbuilding Corporation Photographs, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library
Related Resource	Faces, Places & Spaces. http://digital.houstonlibrary.net/virtual/faces-places/
Rights	Please contact the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston, Texas.
Date Digital	2012
Format	jpg
Digitization Specifications	800dpi ; tiff ; Epson Perfection V700 Photo
Filename	RG0600-0001.tif

Train and train platform

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