Louisville & Nashville 4-6-2 #275 w/ crew, 1 Original Robert Foster Negative

Description

Robert J. Foster of East St. Louis and O’Fallon IL (d. 1963) was considered by Gerald M. Best as “…the greatest locomotive photographer of our times from the standpoint of perfection of pose (and) sharpness of the image and lighting.”
Robert Foster’s photographic works date from the mid-1930’s to the late 1950’s.
From 1938 through 1956, Jerry Best developed all of Foster’s film.
This item is an original black and white Robert Foster photographic negative of
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
4-6-2 steam engine #275 at East St Louis IL in November 1949. The full image of the negative is shown. The negative is 3¼ x 5½ inches image size (122 - postcard).
The negative is part of the
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