. The Street railway journal . ubject. For in-stance, one album contains pictures of stations ; another tracks ;another rolling stock; another car houses and repair shops, andso on. The work of this department also includes reducing byphotographic process tracings, maps, drawings, etc., to smallsizes for convenient reference purposes. These reduced mapsand drawings are printed on blue-print paper and are boundin albums similar to the photographs. The systematic taking of record photographs was com-menced before the present elevated or subway structures were started, and since that time about 4
. The Street railway journal . ubject. For in-stance, one album contains pictures of stations ; another tracks ;another rolling stock; another car houses and repair shops, andso on. The work of this department also includes reducing byphotographic process tracings, maps, drawings, etc., to smallsizes for convenient reference purposes. These reduced mapsand drawings are printed on blue-print paper and are boundin albums similar to the photographs. The systematic taking of record photographs was com-menced before the present elevated or subway structures were started, and since that time about 4000 negatives have beenmade. The records include views of practically all the build-ings along the line of the elevated just as they stood beforework on the structure was commenced. These views have beenof the utmost value in settling damage claims brought byabutting property holders. The photographs were also usedby the architects in estimating the value of buildings that weretorn down to make room for the elevated IlG. a.—\ IEW UF SAilE LOCALITY AS Fit;. 2, SHOWING SHANTYHAD BEEN REMOVED PRIOR TO OCT. 20, 1900 Starting with the time that the first ground was broken, thedepartment has taken progress photographs of every detail ofthe work carried on by the engineering force, not only of newwork, but also in connection with the regular routine work ofthe engineering department. The policy has been to take toomany rather than too few pictures, and oftentimes photographsthat were taken tn show some particular detail have been used
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