Train Time depot ca 1912
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Train Time depot ca 1912
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Three trains have pulled into the station. The arriving passenger train has several people getting off and leaving the area. The passenger train going to Chicago has an engine blowing steam. A freight train is on the third rail.
The depot is the building that was built in 1912. There are both autos and horses with buggies and wagons. The clothing is of the pre-WWI era and the cars are from the teens.
Buildings of Oliver Typerwriter and Woodstock Typewriter factories are visible as are the back views ofbuildings and sheds that were demolished for the Clay Street parking lot.
Wm. G. Hoffman postcard #724
Message on back is postmarked June 18, 1919
The depot is the building that was built in 1912. There are both autos and horses with buggies and wagons. The clothing is of the pre-WWI era and the cars are from the teens.
Buildings of Oliver Typerwriter and Woodstock Typewriter factories are visible as are the back views ofbuildings and sheds that were demolished for the Clay Street parking lot.
Wm. G. Hoffman postcard #724
Message on back is postmarked June 18, 1919
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1912~
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Wm. G. Hoffman, Chicago, “Train Time depot ca 1912,” Woodstock Public Library Archives, accessed April 19, 2026, https://woodstockpubliclibraryarchives.omeka.net/items/show/420.
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