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Deadwood Central R.R. Engineer Corps. (1)

Item Number: LOC-00200005

John C. H. Grabill; 1888

This outdoor group portrait of railroad engineers shows these pioneering gentlemen posing in a row doing what it is that they do best. With surveyors transits on tripods and measuring rods, these enterprising ten with their dog alongside are laying down the tracks into the Wild West. A John C. H. Grabill original, this photograph was taken in 1888.