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Day's end #lakemichigan #chicago #promontorypoint
December 8, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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10/24/2024
#autumn #promontorypoint #hydeparkchicago #lakemichigan
November 13, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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#BlueskyMonday #skyblue with #UP119 #steamlocomotive #GoldenSpike #EastCoastKin #ECK #USNPS #GreatBasin #blue #sky #railroad #railway #trains #train #UShistory #WestCoastKin #steamengine #steam #history #Promontory #PromontoryPoint #photography #railroads #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky
On the left is a tall, simple, two wire, old style telephone pole attached to other poles leading off into the distance on the right. Also on the right are railroad tracks leading to the distance; they are apparent to run side-by-side. On the near center, but just left to it -on a railroad siding line of tracks is an old era 4-4-0 configuration steam locomotive. It's got a straight cylinder style smokestack emitting slightly visible black smoke into a very large & very blue sky. There are but a few small, low lying clouds present. There's a fairly good sized growth of deciduous trees in a clump off to the side of the main railroad tracks but they're not at all tall enough to reach the two telephone wires. The main railroad line tracks leads of on the very lower left of the composition into an invisible point of infinity. There's a white, tiny, distant railroad crossing sign next to the narrowing tracks, as well. The very, very distant horizon is comprised of barely visible mountains -and the tracks are headed straight towards them. In this entire horizontal composition only the telephone pole on the left and the starkly blue sky are tall. They dominate the scene & landscape.
March 23, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/chi...

Chinese Immigrants in US history is mostly ignored, excluded or erased.
Try to find a picture of #TranscontinentalRailroad #PromontoryPoint that includes a single Chinese face, tho they built it thru the High Sierras & Great Basin desert
Chinese Massacre at Deep Creek
Of the many crimes and injustices committed against early Chinese immigrants in the American West, what may have been the most brutal occurred at Deep Creek on…
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June 26, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Another hellish Saturday in Chicago with (camp)fires and people wielding (golf) clubs and (croquet) mallets. #Chicago #JacksonPark #PromontoryPoint
A group of people gathered around a circular stone fire pit on a grassy shore next to a large body of water at dusk. The fire is glowing in the pit, and the scene is framed by several large trees under a cloudy sky. A wide, green golf course fairway on a sunny day, with two golf carts visible on the grass. A line of dense trees stands in the background under a clear blue sky. A view through the leafy branches of a large tree showing four people standing on a green behind a black metal fence on a sunny day playing croquet. A group of people gathered around a small bonfire on a grassy bank at dusk. They are silhouetted against a purple and orange sunset sky, with the silhouette of a city skyline, including a large domed building, visible across a body of water in the background.
October 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM