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 railroad tracks running alongside an unidentified river. A locomotive approaches the photographer.
View of small coal powered steam locomotive in front of a stone building., Title from Darrah., Buff paper mount with rounded corners., See William C. Darrah's The World of Stereographs (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: W.C. Darrah, 1977), page 185 for similar view., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - transportation [(8)1322.F.43c]
View of small coal powered steam locomotive in front of a stone building with three men., Title from Darrah., Buff paper mount with rounded corners., See William C. Darrah's The World of Stereographs (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: W.C. Darrah, 1977), page 185 for similar view., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - transportation [(8)1322.F.43b]
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Two men sit on the last railroad car, one of many that are filled with coal. The locomotive is stopped 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., View of a locomotive pulling a long line of railroad cars through the Pack Saddle, which is a deep gorge that runs through Chestnut Ridge Mountains alongside the Conemagh River. Includes a detailed view of the rock formations near the tracks.
Advertisement showing the freight engine designed with three large wheels behind a smaller one that is situated at the front end of the engine. Engine shown on a stretch of tracks. Richard Norris assumed operations of the Norris Locomotive Works from his father, William, circa 1841. During the 1850s, Norris Locomotive Works was the largest producer of locomotives in America., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 84, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Transportation [P.8970.22]
View of a locomotive pulling four railroad cars. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad started the Royal Blue Line service between New York City and Washington, D.C. in 1890 to become more competitive with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Locomotives on the Royal Blue Line were the fastest owned by the railroad.
Date
March 1891.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.128]
City directory advertisement containing an allegorical scene within an arch-shaped frame. Scene shows the figure of Liberty, attired in a liberty cap, and American flag cape, holding a sword and driving a three horse-team drawn chariot. She travels past a bust of George Washington displayed on a pedestal. In the background, a steam locomotive and steam boat are visible under rays of light emanating from the vista. Also shows an American eagle with an olive branch in its claws flying above Liberty and floral details adorning the bottom edge of the frame. Wagner operated a lithography studio solely 1858 until his death in 1863., Not in Wainwright., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia city directory for 1859... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle. Printed by Henry B. Ashmead., 1859), frontispiece., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 104
Creator
Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.)
Date
[1859]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1859 (65) 10840.O.frontispiece
View showing a primitive steam engine locomotive pulling stagecoach-like railroad cars past the "Philadelphia Germantown & Norristown Railway Depot" at the southwest corner of Ninth and Green streets. A driver attired in a top-hat stands and operates the engine from a chariot like platform attached to the locomotive built by Matthias Baldwin. Several passengers occupy the lead coach and partially visible second one. Conductors sit in the cabs of the cars. The Philadelphia Germantown & Norristown Railway, incorporated in 1831, began service to Germantown in 1832 and to Norristown in 1834. The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad leased the company in 1870., Name of possible artist and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 634, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb862 B756 #43.
Creator
Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date
[1832]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W305 [P.2177]
View of Machinery hall with flags on top and landscaped trees and shrubs in front. Foreground depicts locomotive and full passenger car with West End Passenger Railway Company next to a platform.
Advertisement containing a view of the busy foundry in a trompe l'oeil frame. Shows a gentleman, possibly the proprietor, leaving the door of the office connected to the large workshop in which laborers toil on machine parts. A boy carrying a small part walks toward the gentleman. He passes two men talking at the corner of the small office building near the side of the workshop lined by factory debris. On the sidewalk, laborers finish a large gear propped up on a platform. The men are surrounded by machine parts that lie on the ground and line the outside of another factory building. Nearby, two workers with crowbars and a piece of cylinder await a horse-drawn cart being backed up to the curb by a driver. Also shows a driver leading a horse and ox-drawn wagon hauling a large steam pipe in the street, a locomotive passing between the rear of the factory and fenced pastureland, and a steamboat docked near a hoist on the riverbank in the background. Stotsenburg established his own foundry in 1849 after leaving the partnerhip of Betts & Stotsenburg that began in 1837., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 61
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [P.8970.18]
