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Issue No. 7: The Pullman Photographers and the Man on the Trestle

$9.75

The cover story showcases winners of the Center’s first-ever photography awards program, while John Gruber recaps the success of the first Conversations about Photography conference and announces the second one. Gruber also looks at David Plowden’s famous “retirement” photograph of Missouri-Kansas-Texas station agent R.H. Birkhead. Don Horn examines Pullman Company photographers and presents several examples of their work. John H. White Jr. looks into “the man on the trestle” in a famous A.J. Russell photograph of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad at Green River, Wyoming.

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Railfans ride a Mid-Continent Railway Museum caboose in North Freedom, Wisconsin, in May 1963. Photograph by John Gruber, Gruber-05-021-0003

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