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Drawing of "West Point," the first locomotive with a four-wheel truck, ca.1840
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Drawing of "West Point," the first locomotive with a four-wheel truck, ca.1840
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Description
Photograph of a drawing of "West Point," the first locomotive with a four-wheel truck and the second to be built in the United States. Two men stand on the engine platform as smoke bellows from the stack. Wood is piled neatly on the fuel car directly behind the engine. It was build at the West Point Foundry in New York and was placed in service March 5, 1831, on the Charleston and Hamburg, when it hauled four cars with 117 passengers a distance of 2.75 miles in 11 minutes.
Asset Metadata
Title
Drawing of "West Point," the first locomotive with a four-wheel truck, ca.1840
Subject
Charleston and Hamburg Railroad
(subject),
Locomotives
(lcsh),
Railroads
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Railroads -- Early Days
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1840
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1840
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Copyright
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12087
Identifier
4972 (
accession number
), CHS-4972 (
call number
), CHS-4972 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11582 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12087 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12240 (
legacy record id
), 1-119-14 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11582
Unique identifier
UC130004
Legacy Identifier
CHS-4972.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Description
The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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