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Title: [Locomotive, "Best Friend," tender and passenger cars]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18uu
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted: lantern slides not available for public viewing.
Description: 2018-0862.
Shows Southern Railway System locomotive, tender and passenger cars; built in America; first cab-forward locomotive. "05/87" -- handwritten on cover glass.
Paper mask, cover glass and taped edges.
Online image only, no photographic print available.
Restricted: lantern slides not available for public viewing.
Steam locomotive built for South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company in 1830; shipped to South Carolina where named "The Best Fried of Charleston;" boiler exploded in 1831.
Type: image
Format: Projected
Slide
Photographs.
Projected graphic
Projected medium
Extent: 1 slide : lantern, black and white ; 3 1/4 x 4 in.
Identifier: (C)001629314CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Southern Railway (U.S.)--Photographs
Steam locomotives
Railroad passenger cars
Lantern slides

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