Photograph
Pig Freight Car on the Soo Line
| Group of people standing in front of a Soo Line freight car that was used by the railroad to promote hog transportation. This photograph was donated to the Historical Society by James Lyndon, a former public relations official with the Minneapolis, St. Paul, & Sault Ste. Marie Railway, who has identified the man on the far left as village president G.T. Vorland, a man interested in improving farming methods. Fourth from the left is E.C. Frost, a district official of the Soo Line, and sixth from the right is local farmer John Gunderson. |
| Image ID: | 24722 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1917 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Colfax |
| County: | Dunn |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Railroad photographs, 1897-1950 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 2540 |
| Original Dimensions: | 7.75 x 9.5 inches |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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