Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image shows a steam engine and passenger cars stopped in front of an assemblage of persons and pack trains; there are building in the middle ground, some with signage.
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Artists: Otis, Fessenden N. (Fessenden Nott), 1825-1900 [artist] ; Parsons, Charles, 1821-1910 [artist] Publishers: Endicott & Co. Companies: Panama Railroad Co.
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Image of the U.S. Mail Steamship Company facility in Colón, Panama Canal zone (city known as Aspinwall to Americans at the time); railroad mail cars in foreground with lots of activity, mail steamships in background along docks; many of the mail boxes have labels including, "Wells Fargo," "Adams & Cos. Express," and "Runnels Express," and the mail cars are labeled "A.M. Hinkley's Passenger and Baggage Express" and "Specie U.S. Mails."
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Image of a longitudinal section of a steam locomotive, the Philadelphia, labeled "Longitudinal Section"; scale printed in lower center margin.
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Image of the front and rear elevations and cross section of a steam locomotive, the Philadelphia; labeled as Fig. 1-3, "Transvers Sections." and "Hind end view."; scale printed in lower center margin.
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Image of a map of a portion of the Eastern and Midwestern United States from as far west as Omaha, Nebraska, to the Atlantic Ocean, showing the railroad routes of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and connecting lines, with a vignette of the seal of New York with the banner "Excelsior" above the map title; map verso contains fold-up map cover with a vignette of a passenger train car labeled "Wagners Palace Drawing Room Car" and panels with promotional descriptions and timetables.
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