Showing posts with label The Iron Horse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Iron Horse. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The Iron Horse #5, War #10



Farmville, Virginia, vicinity. High bridge of the South Side Railroad across the Appomattox. Two plates from left and right half of stereograph pair. Photographer, Timothy H. O'Sullivan (April 1865)

Monday, July 30, 2007

The Iron Horse #4, Manhattan #29, Cinema #24


Interior New York Subway, Fourteenth Street to Forty-second Street
Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company (photographed May 21, 1905.)

Saturday, July 21, 2007

The Iron Horse #3, Manhattan #27, Catalogue of the Vanished #6


Interior of Grand Central Depot, 42nd Street and 4th [later Park] Avenue
John B. Snook, architect (1871)
Photograph: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (ca. 1875)

Monday, April 09, 2007

The Iron Horse #2, America #16


"Westward the Monarch Capital makes its way." Union Pacific Railroad, excursion to the 100th meridian. (October 1866)

Friday, March 02, 2007

Manhattan #13, The Iron Horse #1, Cinema #13


104th Street curve, New York, elevated railway

Taken from the front platform of a special train run backward over the celebrated S curve. Not only are the passing trains and crowded platforms of great interest, but the view of up-town New York is an excellent one, showing acre upon acre of roofs, towers, steeples and towering apartment houses. As the "special" slows up at 92nd Street, a Harlem express dashes by, the engineer leaning out of his cab, and waving a good-bye. 150 feet. $22.50.

(filmed late March to mid-April 1899)