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Brake beam department


Title	Brake beam department
Description	Caption: "Brake Beam Department--North". The Chicago Railway Equipment Company was established in 1887, and in its first twenty years of operation it produced and sold over six million brake beams. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2387.html. ) Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Date	1908
Type	Photographs
Identifier	chicagorailwayeq00chic_0149.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagorailwayeq00chic#page/130/mode/2up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format	image/jp2
Subject Name	Chicago Railway Equipment Co.
Subject	Railroads Factories
Date of Content	1900-1909
Publisher	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago
Rights	Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Sub-Collection	Interior Scenes
Collection	Picture Chicago
Book Title	Chicago Railway Equipment Company : [souvenir album, 1893-1908]
Author of the Book	Chicago Railway Equipment Co.
Link to the Full-Text	http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagorailwayeq00chic