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The redesigned and repurposed Union Pacific Railroad roundhouse and machine shop in Evanston, Wyoming. In 1912, the brick roundhouse and turntable were constructed to accommodate larger steam locomotives being brought into service. They served the UPRR as a main railcar and engine repair station and later as a reclamation facility

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The redesigned and repurposed Union Pacific Railroad roundhouse and machine shop in Evanston, Wyoming. In 1912, the brick roundhouse and turntable were constructed to accommodate larger steam locomotives being brought into service. They served the UPRR as a main railcar and engine repair station and later as a reclamation facility

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In 1971, the railroad vacated the roundhouse and most adjacent railroad buildings and the following year deeded the properties to the City of Evanston. From 1972 to 1998, the Roundhouse continued to be utilized as a repair station as several companies leased it from the city. In 1998, the last business vacated the site, and over time modification of the roundhouse into convention and meeting spaces, and a future city hall took shape
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)

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2000 - 2020
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evanston
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1998
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