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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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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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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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Lawrence Machine Shop, Lawrence, Mass. Passenger Engine, 22 tons

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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 labels on the tender and cab that read "Abbott Lawrence," a label on the base of the steam dome for "Lawrence Machine Shop," and the label "No. 97" on the front cylinder; a small African American man stands atop the locomotive's front frame holding a rail; with two upper corner vignettes of elevated views of factory buildings in a rural setting titled "Rear view of works" and "Front view of works."

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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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Boston Locomotive Works. Passenger engine

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Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, a red flag on the pilot, and the label "Boston" on the boiler.

priJLC_TRAN_001077

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