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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera-2005.
Crossing Gateman, Archie Stover, Luray, Virginia
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera-2005.
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera-2005.

Crossing Gateman, Archie Stover, Luray, Virginia

Artist O. Winston Link (American, 1914-2001)
CultureAmerican
Date1956
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 19 7/16 × 15 1/2 in. (49.4 × 39.4 cm)
Overall, Support: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Overall, Mat: 28 7/16 × 24 1/16 in. (72.2 × 61.1 cm)
InscribedSigned and dated by the artist in pencil on the verso of the print. Artist's Studio stamp on the verso of the print.
Credit LineGift of Susan and David Goode
Object number2021.50.19
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print.

Label TextCROSSING GATEMAN, ARCHIE STOVER Luray, Virginia, 1956 L2004.11.19 Archie Stover operates these gates from the post house in the daytime while local mixed trains No. 13 & No. 14 work merchandise on the nearby sidings. Behind Archie is time freight First 51 from Hagerstown, MD. At night these crossing gates are controlled automatically, a part of the N&W modern CTC system. Edited By: DS Approved By: MHM Approval Date: 07/25/2005Exhibition History"Norfolk and Western Railway Photographs by O. Winston Link," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., July 1 - December 31, 2005.