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(RAIL CARS)
Album titled “Rolling Stock and Electrical Apparatus,” with 65 photographs depicting rail cars in
construction and posed on tracks, as well as various electrical components for trains, railyards,
construction sheds, and electrical and mechanical detail views; some with workers, and including
outdoor and indoor scenes. Silver prints, each approximately 7
1
/
4
x9 inches (18.4x22.9 cm.), and the
reverse, mounted to linen recto only, each with a caption and date in the negative. Oblong 4to, cloth
with the title. 1898-1901
[1,500/2,500]
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(TRAIN ACCIDENTS)
A group 48 photographs of train wrecks, including head-on collisions, derailments, and collisions with
buildings, many showing the train cars toppled and those involved with the accident standing on the
cars or around the scene. Silver prints (42), including 13 on carte-postale paper, printing-out paper
prints (4), and albumen prints (2), sizes ranging from 2
1
/
2
x4 to 6
3
/
4
x8
3
/
4
inches (6.4x10.2 to 17.1x22.2
cm.), and the reverse, 23 are mounted, 12 show notations or a date, in pencil or in ink, and 2 with a
photographer’s stamp, on recto or verso. 1890s-1940s (one later)
[1,400/1,800]
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