Details
Creator Kilburn Brothers.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Marsh, Sylvester, 1803-1884, sponsor.
Title The great trestle, Mt. Washington Railway [graphic] / Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N.H.
Publisher Littleton, N.H.: Kilburn Brothers
Publisher NH. Littleton. 1874
Date [ca. 1874]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View of the first mountain climbing railway in the world, completed in 1869, in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The brain-child of Sylvester Marsh, the cog railway utilized coal-powered locomotives. Shows "Tip Top," the first four-cylinder locomotive used on the railway pulling a passenger car labeled "Mt. Washington" down a steep decline of track. Passengers stand near the car windows. A boy stands in front of the trestle.
Notes Photographer's imprint printed on verso.
Negative number printed on mount: 1825.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American Views.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Kilburn Brothers, was a partnership between brothers Benjamin West Kilburn and Edward Kilburn from 1865 to 1877.
Subject Mount Washington Railway.
Mountain railroads -- New Hampshire -- Bretton Woods.
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Marsh, Sylvester, 1803-1884, sponsor.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Kilburn Bros. - Views [5739.F.62d]
Accession number 5739.F.62d