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Locomotives

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Elaborate Burial Scene with Coffin Being Lowered into the Ground; affixed to verso: print of Columbia, South Carolina, State House.

Elaborate Burial Scene with Coffin Being Lowered into the Ground; affixed to verso: print of Columbia, South Carolina, State House.

Drawing: Graphite on beige paper, with image cancelled with an X; verso has a print affixed. 8 5/8 x 12 in. A burial scene in which a coffin is lowered from a horse drawn crank into the awaiting grave. Several mourners stand by. A train from the Cheraw & Darlington Railway Company crosses a bridge in the background. Signed and inscribed at lower right: 'W. Kehn. Cin. O.' At lower left: 'not used --.' Laid on verso silhouetted print of the New State House, Columbia South Carolina, inscribed at upper center in brown ink: 'Columbia, South Carolina.' At upper right in graphite: 'used.'
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Norvin H. Green collection of elevated railroad photographs, circa 1890-1910, 1937-1941

This digital collection includes 3,417 cellulose nitrate photographic negatives from the Norvin H. Green Collection of Elevated Railroad Photographs. Norvin Hewitt Green (1894-1955) was a business executive, civic leader, railroad enthusiast, and trustee of The New-York Historical Society who compiled a photographic record of New York elevated railroads that focuses on the dismantling of most of the lines between 1939 and 1941, hiring the firm of H.F. Dutcher to document the demolition in almost 4,000 views.

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