View of the first mountain climbing railway in the world, completed in 1869, in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The brain-child of Sylvester Marsh, the cog railway utilized coal-powered locomotives. Shows three men on slideboards sliding down the cog rack of the steepest section of the railway., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Negative number printed on mount: 691., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American Views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kilburn Brothers, was a partnership between brothers Benjamin West Kilburn and Edward Kilburn from 1865 to 1877.
Creator
Kilburn Brothers
Date
[ca. 1874]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn Bros. - Views [5739.F.61j]
