Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the railroad tracks in Jacks Narrows near the Juniata River. Includes a faint outline of residences in the distance.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Bird's eye view of Mapleton, showing railroad tracks, the Juniata River, and the town in the distance.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a single railroad track sandwiched between a rock wall and Weir's Run.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a man standing at the edge of a cliff near the railroad tracks in the Pack Saddle, which is a deep gorge that runs through Chestnut Ridge Mountains alongside the Conemagh River.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View from the railroad tracks, showing the Pennsylvania Canal, a cut-stone aqueduct, crossing the Conemaugh River. Includes a small shed and a boxcar near the bank of the river.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view near Iona Station in Gloucester County, New Jersey on the West Jersey Railroad, which was eventually controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Residences near a body of water, probably Iona Lake, are visible in the distance.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view near the Apollo station, showing two men standing near a single railroad track. Apollo was one of the stops on the Western Pennsylvania Railroad, which was leased by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1865.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of railroad tracks and a small locomotive near the Pack Saddle, which is a deep gorge that runs through Chestnut Ridge Mountains alongside the Conemagh River.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts construction activities on a section of a stone wall near the railroad tracks.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view near Walls Station, showing residences near a winding dirt path.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View showing the Pennsylvania Canal, a cut-stone aqueduct, crossing the Conemaugh River near Lockport.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a small locomotive, with a group of men sitting and standing on top, approaching the photographer on the railroad tracks in Lockport. Includes the Pennsylvania Canal, a cut-stone aqueduct, in the background.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the railroad tracks merging from two tracks into one next to Big Sewickley Creek near Paintersville station, once a stop on the South-West Pennsylvania Railroad, which was leased by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1873.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view from the railroad tracks, looking down at the Conemaugh River.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of debris and overgrowth near a small, unidentified building in Bennington, Pa., an area rich in iron and once home to Bennington Furnace (a.k.a. Henrietta or Harriet Furnace).
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view near Bennington, Pa., an area rich in iron and once home to Bennington Furnace (a.k.a. Henrietta or Harriet Furnace).
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts railroad tracks running through the Lewistown Narrows, an area between the Juniata River and Black Log and Shade mountains.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a man sitting on a slope leading from the railroad tracks down to the Conemaugh River. The Pack Saddle is a deep gorge that runs through Chestnut Ridge Mountains alongside the Conemagh River.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a man sitting on a tall boulder near the railroad tracks in the Pack Saddle, which is a deep gorge that runs through Chestnut Ridge Mountains alongside the Conemagh River.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of Weirs Run in Black Lick, Pa. A house sits at the water's edge in the distance.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view of the Kiskiminetas River near North-west station, a stop on the old Western Pennsylvania Railroad line, which was leased to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1865.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a single railroad track running next to the Youghiogheny River. Depicts people walking on the tracks in the distance.
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., 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.
Creator
Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Date
[1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Purviance - transportation [P.9644.22]
View of a double set of railroad tracks curving alongside a mountain slope. A small wooden shack sits at the inside curved of the tracks. Kittaning Point was slightly west of Altoona, Pennsylvania on the Pennsylvania Railroad line., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., William T. Purviance became an official photographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1867.
Creator
Purviance, W. T. (William T.), photographer
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo-Purviance-transportation [P.9644.21]
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a dam in the Juniata River from Franklin Forge, a stop along the Williamsburg Branch of the railroad.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the railroad tracks on the Williamsburg Branch running next to the Juniata River. Includes a partial view of a dam in the distance. Probably the same dam from P.9058.91.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a locomotive on the tracks in Jacks Narrows. A man stands next to his horse-drawn cart on a dirt path that runs parallel to the railroad tracks.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a small tower near the railroad tracks at Walls Station. Includes a view of the Walls Hotel in the background (left).
View of a train going around the Horseshoe Curve on a double set of railroad tracks. 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 Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains., Image is made from the same negative as P.9644.22., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., William T. Purviance became an official photographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1867.
Creator
Purviance, W. T. (William T.), photographer
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo-Purviance-transportation [P.9644.20]
View of a double set of tracks running along the Spruce Creek in Huntingdon County in Central Pennsylvania. The tracks run through a tunnel cut into a mountain in the background., Publisher's imprint on verso: Published by S.M. Morse, bookseller and stationer, dealer in pictures and picture frames, stereoscopes and views, 75 Main Street, Nashau, N.H., Label on verso printed by Miller & Best, 67 High St., Boston., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Transportation [P.9644.23]
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Distant view of a gazebo on the property of the Bedford Springs Hotel, which featured seven freshwater, "medicinal" springs.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts one of seven freshwater, "medicinal" springs on the property of the Bedford Springs Hotel. A columned pavillion sits above the spring in the distance.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts men and women recreating on the grounds of the Bedford Springs Hotel, home to seven freshwater, "medicinal" springs. Includes an ornate stairway leading up to a pavillion.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts one of the springs on the grounds of the Bedford Springs Hotel, home to seven freshwater, "medicinal" springs. A pedestrian bridge is visible in the distance.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a group of people sitting on benches near the Lime Spring, one of seven freshwater, "medicinal" springs on the grounds of the Bedford Springs Hotel.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a cottage located on the west side of the Schuylkill River above the Reading Railway Bridge. The farm house was on the estate of Jacob S. Waln when the Irish poet Tom Moore puportedly stayed here during his visit to Philadelphia in 1804.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Several men sit and stand on and near a locomotive on a tall, wooden trestle bridge in the Bell's Gap section of the railroad, which runs to an extensive and valuable coal-field in the Allegheny Mountains.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the Kittanning Point station next to the railroad tracks. View includes an adjacent dwelling.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a locomotive emerging from the single arch tunnel. Distant view.
