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Railroad men : a book of photographs and collected stories
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Headlights and markers : an anthology of railroad stories
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Covering all phases of railroading from coast to coast, this anthology is packed with action, adventure and raw passions--Adapted from jacket.
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The Petersburg Railroad depot in Richmond
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Stereograph showing Union soldiers and a civilian standing on and near a locomotive at the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Depot which was destroyed by Confederate troops as they fled the city. Over 700 buildings in Richmond were destroyed including the one behind the locomotive.
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George F. Chalender collection of railroad photographs
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A collection of 66 photographs (prints) of various railroad subjects, including steam locomotives, stations, and many scenes of train wrecks, approximately 1880s-1939. Subjects include the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad; and a set of six cabinet card photographs titled "View of the Great Railroad Wreck," showing the wreckage (and crowds of people) of the disastrous 1887 Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad's "Great Chatsworth Train Wreck" in Illinois. Other images include several photographic postcards of trains and scenes of wrecks from 1939. Accompanying the photographs is a 7-page typescript biography of Chalender, with his portrait.
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George F. Chalender collection of railroad photographs
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A collection of 66 photographs (prints) of various railroad subjects, including steam locomotives, stations, and many scenes of train wrecks, approximately 1880s-1939. Subjects include the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad; and a set of six cabinet card photographs titled "View of the Great Railroad Wreck," showing the wreckage (and crowds of people) of the disastrous 1887 Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad's "Great Chatsworth Train Wreck" in Illinois. Other images include several photographic postcards of trains and scenes of wrecks from 1939. Accompanying the photographs is a 7-page typescript biography of Chalender, with his portrait.
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Donald Duke collection of railroad and electric railway photographs and ephemera
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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 Ageand 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 publisher's 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. The negatives are chiefly of locomotives of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ("The Santa Fe"), Southern Pacific Railroad, and Union Pacific Railroad, made approximately 1940s-1950s. There are also many views of streetcars of Los Angeles-area lines: Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, Los Angeles Railway, Los Angeles Transit Lines, and the Pacific Electric Railway. There are a few negatives of other railroads, as well as stations, roundhouses, railyards, and copy negatives of miscellaneous train wrecks. The negatives were made by Donald Duke and others (often uncredited), with a small portion of copy negatives.
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