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State carriage for his highness the vice-roy of Egypt. : Built by T.W. Wason & Co. Springfield Mass. U. S
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Image of an elevation view of the side of a state car designed for Egyptian royalty with enclosed end compartments and an open center porch, standing alone on tracks in a rural landscape with onlookers in the foreground.
Image of an elevated landscape view of the Hampden Park Race Track in Springfield, Massachusetts, with a crowded scene of participants and spectators for the September 1883 Springfield Bicycle Club cycling tournament with ticket booth and a steam locomotive and railroad tracks in the foreground, and the race track with tents, cyclists on high-wheel bicycles circling a course, and a grandstand in the background; the Connecticut River with boats including a steamboat, and the surrounding hillsides are in the distance.
Image of an elevation view of the side of a red manual fire engine with hand buckets decorated with images of scantily clad women, an angel, and an American eagle that sits in the street before the Merchants Exchange building in Boston, Massachusetts; the building is labeled with the signs "Neal & Co."; "Ogdensburgh Rail Road Office"; "Market Bank"; "Merchant Exchange Hotel. Post Office."; "Vermont Central Rail Road Office."; "New England Mutual Marine Ins. Office"; "Bayley & [?]"; "O.D. Ashl[?]"; "F.A. Heath[?]" and “Equiptable [?] Insurance Office.”
Image of an advertisement for Springfield, Massachusetts, Fire & Marine Insurance Company; Columbia seated at center holding a draped American flag and a Union shield aloft an a sword and laurel crown in her other hand; globe, books, and American eagle flank her; burning city and ships at sea in background.
Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, and a label on the smokebox that reads, "Taunton Locomotive / M.G. Co. / Taunton."
Image of an eye-level landscape view of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. factory complex along the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire, with an elevation view of the side of a passenger steam locomotive on railroad tracks in the foreground, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, an engineer visible in the cab, a tender holding wood with a man standing in the tank, and a label between the driving wheels that reads "Amoskeag Mang. Co. Manchester N.H. / C.W. Baldwin Agent / 1856."
Image of elevation views of the side and rear of a steam locomotive with a 0-6-0 wheel arrangement; the boiler is labeled "Baltimore & Potomac" and the images are captioned, "Rear View" and "Side Elevation."
