Image of an eye-level side view of a steam locomotive with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, green-colored tender, decoration between the driving wheels that reads "Hinkley and Williams Works. Boston Mass. / 780" and the label "H. & W.W." on the cylinder. Probable date based on reference that Matthias N. Forney worked for Hinkley from 1865 until 1870 in White, John H. A History of the American Locomotive: Its Development: 1830-1880, page 452. "M.N. Forney, Del."--text, bottom left of image on railroad track. "J.H. Bufford's lith Boston, Mass."--text, bottom right corner.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 38.42 x 76.04 cm (15 1/8 x 29 15/16 in.)
Advertising--Railroads Locomotives--Design and construction--Pictorial works Locomotives--Pictorial works Railroads--Pictorial works Hinkley and Williams Works 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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