Image of an elevation view of the side of a railroad train of the Mohawk and Hudson Railway depicted in 1832 as a silhouette, with a steam locomotive, with a 2-2-0 wheel arrangement, tender with two barrels of wood and a pile of wood, and two attached carriages holding passengers, with doors labeled "M&H RPG No. 1" and "No. 2"; information of the "Names of Passengers, as far as can be ascertained" and "Particulars relating to the Locomotive Engine of the above Train" are printed in the bottom margin. "Entered according to Act of Congress, A. D. 1865, by Thos. Jarmy, in the Clerk's Office of the Northern District Court of New York."--text, bottom center margin. "The Sage, Sons & Co. Lith. Prg & Mfg Co. Buffalo, N. Y."--text, bottom right margin. "As it appeared ready for starting on the Mohawk and Hudson Railway, the first part of the New York Central Railway, from Albany to Schenectady, about the 31st July, 1832, executed at the time on black paper, with a pair of scissors, by a Mr. Brown of Pennsylvania, and Lithographed from a Photograph of the original picture in the possession of the Connecticut Historical Society."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 45.56 x 30.16 cm (17 15/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Railroad travel--Pictorial works Railroads--History--Pictorial works Railroads--Pictorial works Historical Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road Company New York Central Railroad Company Lithographs--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Transportation Large Size Railroad The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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