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1836 Pennsylvania Railroad passenger car photograph
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Accession: 1969-006
Abstract:
Founded in 1846, Pennsylvania Railroad Company (PRR) was a leading industrial and transportation force throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection features a cyanotype and a photographic copy print of an image depicting the first passenger car created for PRR, most likely taken in 1893 in relation to Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.
Dates:
circa 1893
Centennial Exhibition photographs and ephemera
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
Collection
Accession: 2003-255
Abstract:
The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the one hundreth anniversary of American Independence. Held in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, it was the first major U.S. world's fair. This collection contains Centennial Exhibition photographs, albums, scrapbooks, and ephemera
Dates:
circa 1872-1877