Details
Creator Moran, John, 1831-1903.
Title At Tamaqua, Pa. [graphic] / Photographed by John Moran.
Publisher [Philadelphia: John Moran]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date [ca. 1862]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View of a locomotive and passenger car at rest in the coal mining town. The town, laid out in 1829 by the Little Schuylkill, Navigation, and Railroad Company, served as the transition point between the Little Schuylkill and Catawissa railroads. The Catawissa Railroad, incorporated in 1831 and opened in 1854, traveled through the mountains near Blue Ridge connecting Port Clinton and Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Is part of Scenery of Pennsylvania. Cattawissa Rail Road
Notes Photographer's label pasted on verso.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad Company.
Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Tamaqua.
Railroad locomotives -- Pennsylvania -- Tamaqua.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereos - Moran - Views - Cattawissa Railroad [P.9373]
Accession number P.9373