Elevated track construction photographs [graphic], 1918-1923.

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Elevated track construction photographs [graphic], 1918-1923.

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This collection contains photographs that document two railroad construction projects: the construction of railroad track elevations and facilities in downtown Indianapolis between 1918 and 1922, and a track elevation project in Cleveland, Ohio in 1923. The photographs were once owned by Herschel G. Wray, the Pennsylvania Railroad's chief engineer for the projects.

1 box of photographs, 1 box of oversized photographs, 1 oversized folder of photographs.

Indiana Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7710161

Indiana Historical Society Library

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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...

Wray, Herschel G.

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