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English: Original captions: Mines and Minerals: "Lateral Tunnel Under Construction." Page's: "LATERAL CONDUIT UNDER CONSTRUCTION." Western: "Lateral Conduit Under Construction" and inscribed on the photo, "[Illegible] 9-15-02 Ill. Telephone & Telegraph Co -- Construction Methods --". This image is a composite from 3 published sources in order to eliminate artifacts from both printing and scanning. For scale, note that the track in the tunnel is 14-inch gauge.
Date first published: 1902-10. Created: 1902-09-15
Source George W. Jackson, Scope, Extent and Construction of the Underground Conduits of the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Co. in Chicago, Journal of the Western Society of Engineers, Vol. VII, No. 5 (Oct. 1902); page 485. George W. Jackson, Tunnel Construction in Chicago -- Method of Driving and Constructing So As Not To Disturb the Surface, Mines and Minerals, Vol. XXIII, No. 6 (Jan. 1903); page 249. George W. Jackson, Underground Conduits in Chicago, Page's Magazine, Vol. II, No. 4 (Apr. 1903); page 321.
Author George W. Jackson (died 1922)

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