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(PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD)
Group of approximately 115 photographs,
including employees, terminals, operators,
and trains.
Including candid and studio portraits of
employees in uniform (featuring some em-
ployees in a typology, pictured from various
sides), and terminal interiors and exteriors;
some with African American subjects, a female
rail-switch operator, and other female railroad
employees. Silver prints, most ferrotyped, the
images measuring approximately 9x7 to 14x5
5
/
8
inches (22.9x17.8 to 35.6x14.3 cm.), and the
reverse, occasionally with retouching for repro-
duction on recto; some with notations, in
pencil, others with a photographer’s hand
stamp, on verso, and some with a caption label
attached to recto or verso; approximately 12
with a punched studio credit. Circa 1950
[2,500/3,500]
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(TRAINSPOTTING)
A pair of album-cum-scrapbooks with approximately 345 photographs assembled and
photographed by an avid “trainspotter.”
The is first entitled
1948 Pageant of American Railroads
(269 photographs), and includes a typed
history of the American railroad, with a section on electric lines including the early NewYork City
Subway, and multiple sections about East Coast lines with photographs and annotations throughout
about specific trains as well as the photographic processes. The second (with 77 photographs) is
devoted to British railways with various images of trains shown in railyards, stations, and depots
throughout England. Silver prints, 3 hand-colored, the images measuring 2
1
/
2
x3
1
/
2
to 8x10 inches
(6.4x8.9 to 20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto only to paper pages with typed captions.
4tos, cloth-covered boards with hand drawn titles and 3-ring bindings. 1948-55
[1,000/1,500]
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