Ron Ziel photograph collection, 1875-1996. Photographs.

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Ron Ziel photograph collection, 1875-1996. Photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227321429

The Ron Ziel Collection (6,435 photographs, 1874-1996) takes as its major subject the history of the Long Island Rail Road (and to a lesser extent its parent company, the Pennsylvania Railroad); however, the collection also includes many photographs documenting subways, buses, trolley lines and other forms of mass transit in Brooklyn, Queens and suburban Long Island, as well as views of boats, docks, lighthouses, residences and many other subjects relating to the history of Long Island.

6,435 ; photographs (16 cubic feet)

Queens Borough Public Library

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Long Island Railroad Company

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Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

Ziel, Ron, 1939-

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Railway historian Ron Ziel was born July 17, 1939 in Manhattan. His family moved to eastern Queens in 1942, and eventually settled in Melville in 1949. He first became interested in railroads as a small child, when his mother would take him to watch the trains at the Long Island Rail Road stations at Queens Village and Bellerose. He attended Huntington High School, graduating in 1957, and studied advertising design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, earning a BFA in 1961. H...