Manuscripts
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Valuation of the engine stock of the Midland Great Western Railway Company of Ireland, as of 30 November 1853.
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Southern Pacific Railroad Company
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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.
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Maps, blueprints, and drawings (rolled)
Manuscripts
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Anaconda Copper Mine photographs
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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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Great Northern Railway Company
Rare Books
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646607
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El Gobernador. Built at S.P.R.R. Shops, Sac., Cal
Rare Books
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