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First Locomotive in N.A

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Date:

c. 1920.

Reference:

R13133-358-6-E, Volume number: 40

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3984898

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

First Locomotive in N.A
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Date(s):

c. 1920.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print : newspaper clippings mounted on paper ; 48 x 32.1 cm (page).

Language of material:

English

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Consists of a sheet of paper with several clippings pasted to it. The top clipping is a typewritten extract from "The World Book", page 4917, entitled "A Pleasure Ride on an Early American Train". Below is a clipping from the Canadian National Railways Magazine, March 1920 (p. 66), entitled "First Locomotive in N.A.". The text is accompanied by a reproduction of a photograph by J.G. Taylor of the Samson locomotive, which ran at Stellarton, N.S. in 1839. The other two clippings are photomechanical reproductions depicting "The Stevens Locomotive - an attempt of 1825" and "The Tom Thumb, Built by Peter Cooper in 1829".
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Photographer: Taylor, J.G

Canadian National Railways (1919-1960)
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Locomotives

SUBJ. - Transportation : Land - Railways : Locomotives
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Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R13133]

[Consultation 90 Open]

40 Item no. assigned by LAC 344

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright : unknown
Credit : Library and Archives Canada, R13133-344

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