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., 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]
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]
Series of illustrated trade cards for the Cincinnati lithographers, engravers, and printers. Imagery includes an allegorical female figure seated near objects symbolic of the arts and sciences, including a paint palette, compass, globe, and books and scenes of a farmer at his plow, a traveling locomotive, and sailing vessels on the ocean. Other pictorial details include ornate frames surrounding advertising text. Frames contain scrolls and bunches of grapes. The premier firm established in 1856 operated as Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co. between 1860 and 1869., Title supplied by cataloger., Color lithographs printed in either blue, green, or violet ink., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[1860-1869]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.146e, h, j- l & o]
Series of illustrated trade cards for the Cincinnati lithographers, engravers, and printers. Imagery includes an allegorical female figure seated near objects symbolic of the arts and sciences, including a paint palette, compass, globe, and books and scenes of a farmer at his plow, a traveling locomotive, and sailing vessels on the ocean. Other pictorial details include ornate frames surrounding advertising text. Frames contain scrolls and bunches of grapes. The premier firm established in 1856 operated as Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co. between 1860 and 1869., Title supplied by cataloger., Color lithographs printed in either blue, green, or violet ink., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[1860-1869]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.146e, h, j- l & o]
Oblique, exterior view of south elevation of hall built 1874-1876 after designs by Hermann J. Schwarzmann. A locomotive travels west on railroad tracks in the foreground. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., On negative: 566., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Isaac Sterns, Burlington, Vt.; No. 32, Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Date
[ca. 1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Exhibitions [P.9047.28]
Bill of lading for the Philadelphia shipping warehouse containing two vignette wood engravings. Images show a steam locomotive, and a horse-drawn canal boat., Completed in manuscript for Mr. Schrack shipping "1 bbl oil" to Brubacker & Co., dated September 22, 1846 and signed by A.L. Gerhart., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1840]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.118]
Bill of lading containing a vignette showing a locomotive pulling a string of rail cars, including one with freight. William Sharpless began work as a merchant from Broad and Sassafras (i.e., Race circa 1839). Alfred Sharpless partnered with William circa 1850., Completed in manuscript for [Charles] Schrack shipping "1 Bbl [Mdge?]" to [W. Sweny?], dated June 12, 1850, signed by A. Sharpless., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.145]
Scenic views showing the Horse Shoe Curve and Pack Saddle along the Pittsburgh Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Views also show locomotives, men posed on rock ledges, including one labeled "Sit Box," railroad tracks, and townscape., Series title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Three of the series numbered. Collection contains: 341; 517; 703., Two of stereographs inscribed on verso: T.N. Haskill., Gift of Jessy Randall., Created postfreeze., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Purviance was commissioned as an official photographer of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1867.
Creator
Purviance, William T.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Purviance - Views [P.2005.19.1-4]
View of steam-powered locomotive pulling cars around curved elevated track, sometimes called Suicide or Angels' Curve, located at 110th and 8th Avenues on New York City's 9th Avenue line. Two standing figures and a wagon with two passengers are at street level. After 1903 steam powered locomotives were no longer used on this line., View is numbered 7815 in a series., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date
between 1896 and 1903
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - transportation [P.9600.9]
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., 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.
Creator
Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date
[ca. 1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Moran - Views - Cattawissa Railroad [P.9373]
Shows several Pennsylvania Railroad engines overturned near railroad tracks in a valley full of debris after the devastation of the flood on May 31, 1889. Buildings on higher ground are visible in the distant background., Title on negative., Publisher's and distributor's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date
sold only by Griffith & Griffith
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Disasters [P.9462.1]
