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Senate Gets New Subway



Title Senate Gets New Subway
Artist/Maker Associated Press
Date 1960-01-10
Medium Photograph, black and white
Dimensions h. 8 x w. 8.5 in. (h. 20.32 x w. 21.59 cm)
Credit Line U.S. Senate Collection
Accession Number 38.01260.001


  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
  • Inscription (verso, center top, in blue ink): Bldg - Nat'l (US Capitol) / US Senate Office [Building]
    Sticker (verso, right top, over inscription, in black ink): historicimages.com / [barcode] / orb57291
    Label (verso, center, in black ink): Innovation in Washington is new six million dollar subway linking new Senate / Office Building and Capitol. New electric cars, shown above, made first official / trips this week. Designed to carry 36 passengers, they cost $75,000 each. Fifty- / year-old monorail subway between Capitol and old Senate Office Building will / be replaced later and linked with new system.
    Inscription (verso, center, handwritten in blue ink with first two lines crossed out in graphite): Wed - Thurs - [illeg.] / 4th 3 lu [?] / 3 - cal
    Stamp (verso, right bottom, in blue ink): JAN 10 1960
    Inscription (verso, right bottom, in red graphite): 780

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