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Title: Passenger locomotive Lancaster (Penna.) Locomotive Works, No. [space] 1857
Creator: Bigot, Alphonse, approximately 1828-1872 or 1873, artist
T. Sinclair's Lith., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1852
1853
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1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, a tender labeled "Columbia & Philada. R. Road", and a portrait of a man, presumably United States Vice President John C. Breckinridge, on the sandbox; the boiler has the label, "John C. Breckenridge" and the driving wheels have hubcaps labeled, "Lancaster Locomotive Co. Lanc, Pa. / J. Brant Sen. Supt."
Probable date based on item title. "Alphonse Bigot Dell."--text, bottom left margin. "T. Sinclair's Lith. Phila."--text, bottom right margin. "James Black President."--text, bottom left margin. "M.O. Kline, Treasurer."--text, bottom right margin. "John Brandt Senr., Genrl. Superintendent. John Brandt Junr., Asst. Superintendent"--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 58.1 x 102.55 cm (22 7/8 x 40 3/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_TRAN_001055
402469
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1476
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Railroads
Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875--Pictorial works
Locomotives--Pictorial works
Locomotives--Design and construction--Pictorial works
Railroads--Pictorial works
Lancaster Locomotive Works
Columbia-Philadelphia Railroad
Lithographs--Color--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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