[Wallace Row and other Illinois Central Railroad employees]

[Wallace Row and other Illinois Central Railroad employees]

Railroads
Dubuque (Iowa) -- Pictorial works
William J. Klauer Collection
Glass negatives
Itinerant photographers

Wallace Row has been identified as a time keeper with the Illinois Central Rail Road. He is standing at the right in the photograph. He is using a typewriter-like machine, perhaps an adding machine, that types onto a narrow roll of paper. Behind and to the left of Mr. Row are three other men working with papers and ledgers and standing at a long, high table. In front of the table is a smaller table on which are numerous papers, stamps, pens, inkwells, and a glass holding paper clips. Behind Mr. Row is an open vault door. The wooden frame around the vault door is ornate and includes an arched frame and center filial over the top of the door. Behind the three unidentified men is another high table up against the back wall. A crank-style pencil sharpener is attached to one end of the table. Attached to the wall behind that table is a large clock in a wooden frame. A sign on the clock reads “U. S. Observatory Time Hourly by W. U. Tel. Co.” To the right of the clock, a framed display of medals and buttons from uniforms is hanging over what appears to be either a pass-through window or an open doorway blocked by the table. A portrait of a man who is partially bald is hanging on another wall. A smaller version of this portrait may also be seen in image number KL 054-393. A day calendar for “Tue 4 Jun,” and advertising “Coates & Robinson,” hangs under the portrait. The number “102” has been written on the emulsion side of the negative and is visible in the upper right corner of the picture. No number is written in the upper left corner.

Photographer unknown

The Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, 1450 Alta Vista Street, Dubuque, Iowa 52001

This record is part of the William J. Klauer Collection held by The Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa.

1912-05/06

Contact The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College, 1450 Alta Vista Street, Dubuque, Iowa 52001 or call (563) 588-7100 © 2013 LORAS COLLEGE

William J. Klauer Collection

Digital image captured using a Microtek ScanMaker 8700 with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a glass plate negative scanned in 16 - bit grey scale at 1200 ppi.

Still image

KL 056-256

Jones and Iowa Streets, Dubuque, Iowa

The 1912 Dubuque City Directory lists the Illinois Central Rail Road Company passenger and freight depots as located at Jones and Iowa Streets. The general offices were in the Bank & Insurance Building, 9th and Main Streets.

1 glass negative: b & w

6.5 x 8.5 in.