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Iron manufacturers - car wheels - engineers' and machine tool makers

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Description: Image of an eye-level landscape view of the A. Whitney & Sons Car Wheel Works factory building and smokestacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with an empty street in the foreground except for a few pedestrians, in the upper half of the sheet; the lower half of the sheet contains an image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement and tender, showing a cross section of a railway turntable underneath the tracks with promotional text for William Sellers & Co.; the verso contains a page of printed text titled "The State of Rhode Island."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: after 1850
Call number: priJLC_TRAN_001117

A. Whitney & Sons’ Car Wheel Works, Callow Hill, 16th to 17th Streets, Philadelphia, Penna

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Image of an elevated landscape view of the A. Whitney & Sons Car Wheel Works factory buildings and smokestacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground.

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Woodburn "Sarven Wheel" Co

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Image of an elevated street view of the Woodburn "Sarven Wheel" Company factory complex, including smokestacks and buildings for the bending factory, wagon & carriage materials, and office, with a street scene of horse-drawn wagons, pedestrians, and a lumberyard in the foreground.

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Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Co

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Image of an elevated landscape view of the Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Company factory complex in the borough of Mount Joy in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with the main building labeled "Mount Joy Car Manufactory," smokestacks, laborers, a railroad train in the left background, and pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles in the street in the foreground.

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Inside connected passenger engine. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. Manchester N.H

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Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, and sign on the smokebox that reads "Manchester N.H. / No.150. 1854."

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Worcester Salt Special, 162 cars started by President-Elect William McKinley. Train nearly one and a half miles long

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Image of an elevated landscape view of a long train of steam locomotives and yellow box cars crossing through a rural landscape with factory buildings and smokestacks in the distance and the front train crossing a bridge over a river in the foreground with four men walking on the bridge and two men walking on a boxcar roof; each car has two white flags labeled "W.S." and the cars have signs for Boston, Massachusetts, and grocery companies; the front locomotive has a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement and "Erie" written on the cab.

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Outside connected passenger engine. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. Manchester N.H

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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."

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