Drawings and blueprints, 1875-1925.

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Drawings and blueprints, 1875-1925.

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Consists of pencil, pen and ink, and water color architectural drawings by Shaw; five photographs of unidentified houses; and blueprints and other plans related to Shaw's work for the Pennsylvania Railroad, primarily in Delaware County, Pa.

ca. 146 items : chiefly ill.

Winterthur Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8325594

Winterthur Library

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Shaw, J. William.

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J. William Shaw was an architect. His name appears sporadically in Philadelphia city directories from 1883 to 1914 as an architect or draftsman. After 1899, he was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. at the Broad St. Station. Shaw maintained a home and office in Wayne, Pa., where much of his work was done. From the description of Drawings and blueprints, 1875-1925. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 84666108 ...

Smith, Horace James, 1964-

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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...