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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Rare Books
Includes (selected items): brochure. "Throw In The Switch! Pennsylvania Railroad Inaugurates All-Electric Service Between New York, Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Effective January 15, 1938. Pictures of catenary construction. Statement about work-hours for thousands of men (1938).
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Camp Baltimore. Governor Porter's review of the troops, Wednesday the 18th of May, 1842
Visual Materials
Image of United States troops assembled at attention at Camp Baltimore, Maryland, for review by Governor David R. Porter of Pennsylvania; a group of men on horseback, including Governor Porter, at center riding in front of the assembled soldiers; civilian men, women, and children spectators in foreground.
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Special projects - Hollywood cemetery
Manuscripts
Papers related to two issues with related to the Hollywood Cemetery: 1. Notice of purported shifting of the Eliza Otis obelisk, with ensuing legal advisement correspondence, 1983; 4 x 6" color photographs of the obelisk, 19. 2. Vandalizing of the bronze eagle on the 1910 bombing victim memorial, including correspondence, lists of contacts, project logs, and photographs (both photocopies and prints, including 2 black and white prints from the archives dated 1945 and 1939 of the intact eagle monument, and Polaroids of the bird after its wings were stolen in 1987), map of the cemetery, news clippings on the decline of the cemetery's upkeep, and information from vendors amassed while researching repair or replacement of the statue.
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Group of Union Military and Civilian Men, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Visual Materials
A group image of twelve men outside, some in Union military dress, others in civilian dress. Eight of the group are standing, four are seated. There are buildings in the background, and in the distance Cameron Hill with a house on top to the left.
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The Fort Pillow massacre
Visual Materials
Image of the Battle of Fort Pillow in Henning, Tennessee, in 1864 during the American Civil War; Confederate soldiers are depicted murdering African American soldiers and civilian men, women and children at the water's edge; soldiers, officers on horseback, and cannons on cliffs in background; Confederate and white surrender flags visible on hills.
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Washington Artillery, Boston, Jan. 1853
Visual Materials
Image of the Washington Artillery Regiment outside Boston, Massachusetts, in 1853; ranks of soldiers at attention in military uniform with swords or rifles with bayonets at their sides stand in a field; civilian men, women, and children under a large tree, military camp tents, and a pair of cannons near a flag pole visible in background.
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