Manuscripts

Original tracings

Description: Collection of 75 tracings, blueprints, etc. of locomotive parts, machinery, etc. Includes Robert Stephenson's engine Planet no. 10.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1830
Call number: Lot 346
Provenance: Purchased from Anderson Galleries, 1919.
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Ireland

Manuscripts

Valuation of the engine stock of the Midland Great Western Railway Company of Ireland, as of 30 November 1853.

Lot 256

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Southern Pacific Railroad Company

Rare Books

Includes train(s): Daylight. Includes (selected items): set of 10 blueprints: Elevations and floor plans of the Daylight locomotive and each car of the train. Locomotive class GS-2. Revised early 1937.

646607

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Maps, blueprints, and drawings (rolled)

Manuscripts

Material includes: Plan showing Mill Site on the Gila River; Albert Crank's exercises in mechanical drawing; blueprint of machinery for winery (1885); Azusa Land and Water Company blueprints; blueprints, maps, etc., of land in northern Pasadena and vicinity, including Lamanda Park, Hill Avenue, Mountain Street; miscellaneous working drawings.

mssCrank

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Great Northern Railway Company

Rare Books

Includes (selected items): book. "Diesel, Gas-Electric & Electric Locomotive Diagrams, Reprint of Great Northern" (Reprint of 1952 Edition #32). "Blueprints and measurements for rail fans and model railroaders." Published by J.W. Sheets, 1963.

646607

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Anaconda Copper Mine photographs

Visual Materials

A collection of 45 large-format photographs of the upper and lower works of the Anaconda Copper Mine near Anaconda, Montana, documenting machinery, buildings, workers, and processes. There are numerous views of machines used throughout the process of refining the minerals, including boiler rooms, round tables, steam stamps, furnaces, jigs, engine rooms, grinders, and crushers, as well as some photographs showing electric lights. There are no views of the mine itself, only interior and exterior views of the associated plants, railroad tracks, and company houses. One photograph includes railroad cars and a locomotive of the Montana Union Railroad.

photCL 52

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El Gobernador. Built at S.P.R.R. Shops, Sac., Cal

Rare Books

Image size: 14 1/4 x 21 in. Note: View of men posed with a steam locomotive. Printed on label after title: "Drain of Cylinder, 21 inch. Stroke, 36 inch. Total weight of engine, 73 tons. Weight on drivers, 64 tons. Diam. of drivers, 4 ft., 9 in. Weight of tender, light, 50, 650 lbs. Total length of engine and tender, 65 ft., 5 in. Driving Wheel Base, 19 ft., 7 in. Rigid Wheel Base, 14 ft., 7 in. Water capacity of tender, 3600 gals." The label for this print does not have Watkins' photograph number and none is given in Naef, dated 1887-1889; Green dates 1886-1889 in correspondence June 12, 2019.

137500; 137501; 137502; 137503

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