Lot 347
Lot 347
(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 employees 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 reproduction 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]
