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An account of the Portage rail road : over the Allegheny Mountain, in Pennsylvania
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Allegheny Portage Railroad (Pennsylvania)
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This collection consists of railroad photographs, ephemera and publications, 1829-2010, with the bulk of material from the early- to mid-20th century. The focus is chiefly locomotives and trains (steam and diesel) of major railroads and interurban electric railways of the United States and Canada. Also represented in the collection are smaller shortline and narrow-gauge railroads; other foreign railroads; streetcars (or trolleys); and burgeoning light rail and subway systems. Most of the ephemera is printed material produced by railroad companies for promotional and business purposes, such as annual reports, brochures, route maps and guides, timetables, tickets, dining menus, stationery, stock certificates, bond coupons and other items. There are also many city and state tourist guidebooks describing sights along rail routes or promoting land available for farming, mining or home-building across the United States. Also included are items produced for or by railroad employees, such as instruction and safety manuals, train orders, freight bills and in-house newsletters. Railroad industry publications, statistics and reports can be found in the American Association of Railroads files, which are part of Donald Duke's subject files on railroad-related topics. Throughout the ephemera files are newspaper and journal clippings, often from scarce small press and trade publications such as The Railway and Engineering Review, The Railroad Gazette, The Santa Fe Magazine, The Western Railroader, Railway Age and others. In addition to railroad history, other topics of social and cultural historical interest in the ephemera are: Depictions of African Americans and Native Americans in mass-marketed train travel brochures. There are many examples that reflect American cultural and class stereotypes in the early- to mid-20th century. Selected files are noted in the container list. Occupational safety and health: See railroad worker safety manuals and accident prevention literature in ephemera files. History of food and drink: See numerous dining and beverage menus throughout Railroads and Foreign Railroads ephemera files (not always noted in container list). History of graphic design and typography: See examples of early- and mid- 20th century popular styles in printed ephemera throughout collection. Photographs and negatives: The photographs depict locomotives, freight and passenger trains, logging railroads, electric interurbans and streetcars across the United States. This was primarily a publishers file of ready-for-press photographs, which are almost all 8 x 10-inch black-and-white prints, made approximately 1950s-1980s. The photographs were made chiefly by various amateur train photographers, including Donald Duke, but most are uncredited. There are some copy prints (photographs of other photographs), and a few original photographs from the late 19th-early 20th century. Some photographs have locations and dates written on the back, but many are unidentified other than the name of the railroad. There are a few files on Ward Kimball (1914-2002), one of the original animators for Walt Disney Studios and an avid rail enthusiast. There are some photographs, biographical materials, and a file on his personal backyard narrow-gauge steam railroad, Grizzly Flats Railroad, in San Gabriel, California.
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View of the Pennsylvania Rail Road bridge over the Susquehannah River 5 miles above Harrisburg
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The Jay T. Last collection of views prints and ephemera contains over 190 mostly lithographic prints depicting physical locales primarily in the United States. These images date from 1824 to 1913 and include town and city views; pictorial maps and plans; landscapes and waterscapes; scenes of rural and wilderness areas; commercial and residential streets and individual buildings and structures; parks, bridges, and monuments; and a small number of interior views. The images often include depictions of people, animals, street traffic, and structures but share a focus on place, as opposed to genre scenes of everyday life or company- or product-based advertisements. The prints are organized geographically by region, and approximately 115 prints depict locales in the Northeastearn United States, twenty-eight in the American West, twenty-five in the Midwest, twenty-one in the South, and five of the prints depict places outside of the United States. The view prints provide rich resources for the study of nineteenth and early twentieth century American printing history, visual culture, and social history. The collection offers evidence of the development of printmaking techniques and trends, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creation of these prints. As a visual historical record, this collection provides documentary evidence of the interplay between individuals and their environments, and their perceptions and interpretations of their surroundings. Prints in the collection document the topography, development, and promotion of towns and cities; the impact of settlement, transportation, and infrastructure on both rural and urban environments; the architectural history of business and retail centers, civic buildings, private residences, churches, and education buildings; and perceptions towards wilderness and frontier areas. As well, information about social history emerges through the depictions of individuals and street scenes in many of these prints, including modes of transportation, fashion, tourism, and leisure and commercial activities.
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Bald Eagle Valley and Tyrone & Clearfield branches, Pennsylvania Rail Road. : Schedule no. 4. Pennsylvania Rail Road Company passenger and freight trains
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Image of a timetable for branches of the Pennsylvania Rail Road running between Philipsburg, Tyrone, and Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, with printed special notices and a list of forty rules regarding the operation of trains; printed on blue paper.
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Great Eastern rail road route over Massachusetts western rail road, from Albany or Troy for Boston
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Image of a broadside advertising the route of the Great Eastern Railroad with a wood-engraved vignette of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, and a freight car and passenger car centered in the upper third of the poster; decorated border.
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A narrative of the Gywnedd cut-off on the North Pennsylvania rail road
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