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Title: Jacks Narrows. West of Jackstown
Description: 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.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.83]

Title: Bell's Gap
Description: 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.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.98]

Title: Above Duncannon
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a locomotive on the tracks next to a large rock wall in Duncannon, a town not far from Harrisburg, Pa. on the Susquehanna River.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.73]

Title: Hollow Track Tank
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts railroad tracks running alongside an unidentified river. A locomotive approaches the photographer.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.42]

Title: Bell's Gap
Description: 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.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.97]

Title: Pack Saddle west of Stone Quarry
Description: 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.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.57]

Title: [Memorial Hall, Centennial, Philadelphia]
Description: 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]

Title: Eastwick & Harrison's improved locomotive engine
Description: Shows the 4-4-0 steam locomotive, Gowan & Marx, built 1839 by the firm after the designs of Joseph Harrison, Jr. The locomotive, for its weight, was the most efficent for freight purposes at the time. The firm established as Garrett, Eastwick & Co. was renamed Eastwick & Harrison in 1839 after the retirement of Garrett, when Harrison, a junior partner became a full partner., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on recto and mount: This locomotive engine "Gowan & Marx" hauled the freight train over the Philadelphia & Reading R. Road from Pottsville to Philada. D. J. Kennedy., Attached to sheet containing two photographic reproductions of Philadelphia and Reading Railroad broadsides dated 1839 and 1840., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 63, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: K VII 46
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: [ca. 1839]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP K VII 46

Title: The scenery of the Pennsylvania Central Rail Road
Description: 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]

Title: At Tamaqua, Pa
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., 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]

Title: William Norris manufacturer of locomotive steam engines Philadelphia F.D. Sanno, chief engineer
Description: Shows the 4-2-0 steam locomotive "Lafayette" built in 1837 by the company started by William Norris and Col. Stephen H. Long in 1836. An engineer operates the locomotive. The locomotive, built for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was the first 4-2-0 to contain a leading truck and became the model for steam engines. The premier steam locomotive manufactory of the 1830s-1860, the internationally recognized company produced several innovative designs, including the first locomotive to ascend a hill on its own power, a leading truck, and the first ten-wheel locomotive., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 277, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Albert Newsam Collection, V-100, Box 3, Folder 135
Creator: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, artist
Date: [ca. 1837]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Albert Newsam Collection, V-100, Box 3, Folder 135

Title: H. R. Campbell's patent locomotive engine
Description: Shows the 4-4-0 design locomotive patented by Campbell, the chief engineer of the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown Railway in 1836. The locomotive is depicted on a section of track. The 4-4-0 design, known as the American type, has a two-axle bogie to help guide it into curves, and two driving axles coupled by a connecting rod., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 103, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 6741 C 188
Date: [ca. 1836]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 6741 C 188

Title: William Norris & Comp: Philadelphia U.S.N. America
Description: Shows the steam locomotive "Philadelphia" built by the company started by William Norris and Col. Stephen H. Long in 1836. Locomotive contains a nameplate. Also includes a scale printed below the image. Locomotive commissioned by the Vienna & Raab Rail Road Company in Austria. The premier steam locomotive manufactory of the 1830s-1860, the internationally recognized company produced several innovative designs, including the first locomotive to ascend a hill on its own power, a leading truck, and the first ten-wheel locomotive., Not in Wainwright., Published in Locomotive steam engine of William Norris, Philadelphia. [HSP Wf*.9999 v. 2], Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 276, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 6741 N 861a, Manscript note on verso: Removed from pamphlet on William Norris Locomotive Engineer Wf* 999 no. 1.
Date: [1841?]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 6741 N 861a

Title: Locomotive steam engine of William Norris, Phila. Class B
Description: Shows the steam locomotive "Washington" built by the company started by William Norris and Col. Stephen H. Long in 1836. Locomotive contains a nameplate. Also includes a scale printed below the image. In July 1836, the "George Washington" hauled a load of 19,200 pounds at 15 miles per hour up the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad's inclined Belmont Plane. It was the first locomotive to ascend a hill on its own power. In 1837, the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railway assumed ownership of the machine. Norris & Company, the internationally recognized premier steam locomotive manufactory of the 1830s-1860, produced several innovative designs, including the "Washington," a leading truck; and the first ten-wheel locomotive., Not in Wainwright., Published in Locomotive steam engine of William Norris, Philadelphia. [HSP Wf*.9999 v. 2], Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 139, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 6741 N 861, Manscript note on verso: Removed from pamphlet on William Norris Locomotive Engineer Wf* 999 no. 1.
Date: [1841?]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 6741 N 861

Title: Wrecked engines at Conemaugh
Description: 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]

Title: Railroad depot at Philadelphia
Description: 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]

Title: Bicycle glide
Description: Sheet music cover containing a genre scene, circa the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, showing bicyclists on East River Drive, i.e. Kelly Drive in East Fairmount Park. In the foreground, a man in checkered coat, striped bicycle pants, and a "Deerstalker" cap rides a "High Wheeler" in front of an arch of the New York Connecting Railway Bridge (built 1866-1867) spanning the Schuylkill River. Behind him, two other bicyclists follow and pass a startled horse pulling a buggy being approached by a park guard from across the road. A locomotive travels over the bridge. In the background, the Promontory Rock Tunnel (bored in 1871), the Girard Avenue Bridge (built 1872-1874), and the Centennial Exhibition observation tower, "Iron Tower," on George's Hill in West Fairmount Park are visible. Scullers row near a steamboat under the distantly-seen bridge on which a locomotive crosses. Also shows horse-drawn carriages traveling on the drive and on the Girard Avenue Bridge. The Iron Tower was removed to Coney Island following the close of the exhibition., Dedication: Respectfully dedicated to "The Philadelphia Bicycle Club.", Not in Wainwright., Price printed on recto: 5., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 282, Johns Hopkins University: Levy Collection Box 061, Item 006, Free Library of Philadelphia Music Department holds copy.
Date: c1880
Location: Johns Hopkins University | Special Collections at the Sheridan Libraries. JHU Levy Collection Box 061, Item 006, http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:061.006

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