Details
Creator Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Title Horseshoe Curve [graphic]
Publisher Philadelphia: Purviance, Publication Office, Machinery Hall, International Centennial Exposition
Date [1876]
Physical Description 1 albumen print on stereo card: stereograph; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View of a train going around the Horseshoe Curve on a double set of railroad tracts. A steep embankment drops down from either side of the tracks and a forested mountain rises up in the background. The Horseshoe Curve opened to train traffic on February 15, 1854 and allowed trains to travel over Pennsylvnia's Allegheny Mountains.
Is part of Purviance's American Scenery. 362
Notes View is made from the same negative as P.9644.20.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Pennsylvania Railroad.
Geographic subject Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark (Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Purviance - transportation [P.9644.22]
Accession number P.9644.22