Details
Creator Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Title The Allegheny Tunnel, at the Summit. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: W.T. Purviance]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the portal of the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel, completed in 1854, running beneath the summit of the Allegheny Mountains at Gallitzin, Pa. Includes passengers waiting at the train station near a stopped locomotive and a sign post advertising the Gallitzin House hotel. In the far background, the borough is visible above the tunnel.
Is part of Purviance's stereocopic views on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad.
Purviance's stereoscopic views on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad.
Notes Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Title printed on the mount.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Pennsylvania Railroad.
Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Gallitzin.
Railroad tunnels -- Pennsylvania -- Gallitzin.
Railroad stations -- Pennsylvania -- Gallitzin.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Purviance - Transportation [P.9577.21]
Accession number P.9577.21