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Post Office pneumatic tube system
Chicago, the Great Central Market : a magazine of business

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Title
Post Office pneumatic tube system
Description
Caption: "End of the big pneumatic tube system in the basement of the Chicago Post Office." From text: "The underground pneumatic tube system is the largest of the kind in the world. There are three double-tube trunk lines, aggregating over eighteen miles of eight-inch cast iron pipe. Of these lines the stockyards branch is the longest, the station being six and one-half miles away from the post-office, requiring thirteen miles of pipe. Relay stations on this line are at Twelfth and Twenty-second streets ... "
Date
1906  
Type
Photographs  
File Name
chicagogreatcent321906chic_0051.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogreatcent321906chic#page/48/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogreatcent321906chic
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Subject
  • Post offices  
  • Pneumatic tubes  
Coverage-Spatial
The Loop (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
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.
Book Title
Chicago, the Great Central Market : a magazine of business  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitlePost Office pneumatic tube system
DescriptionCaption: "End of the big pneumatic tube system in the basement of the Chicago Post Office." From text: "The underground pneumatic tube system is the largest of the kind in the world. There are three double-tube trunk lines, aggregating over eighteen miles of eight-inch cast iron pipe. Of these lines the stockyards branch is the longest, the station being six and one-half miles away from the post-office, requiring thirteen miles of pipe. Relay stations on this line are at Twelfth and Twenty-second streets ... "
Date1906  
TypePhotographs  
File Namechicagogreatcent321906chic_0051.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogreatcent321906chic#page/48/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogreatcent321906chic
RepositoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Subject
  • Post offices  
  • Pneumatic tubes  
Coverage-SpatialThe Loop (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1900-1909  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
RightsImages 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.
Book TitleChicago, the Great Central Market : a magazine of business  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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