Photograph album of locomotive construction, 1939.

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Photograph album of locomotive construction, 1939.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754863482

Portrays the manufacture and assembly of railroad locomotives at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia. Prints are not numbered and are not necessarily in sequence. All prints have captions and dates typed on the border outside the image. A full set of negatives is included in the box.

54 8 x 10" prints (and negatives) in 1 Kodak album. .25 linear ft.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8130330

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Baldwin Locomotive Works

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