A handsome albumen photograph of the steamboat lighter Santiago, captained by a Philadelphia native and Galveston, Texas transplant who later operated a prominent Galveston hotel and whose cattle-king brother built the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway. Some eleven people are visible on the decks of the Santiago, moored to.....
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An impressive photo archive documenting a range of locomotives built for the Boston & Providence Railroad by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works; the Taunton Locomotive Mfg. Co.; Mason Machine Works; the Hinkley & Williams Works, and the Boston & Providence itself. Forty-two of the various engines pictured were produced between.....
A rare and impressive locomotive trade catalog illustrated with original photographs of engines and parts, providing comprehensive and detailed photographic documentation of locomotive construction. The photographs were taken by the firm of noted New York City photographer George Rockwood. Included here are portraits of the Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad.....