Form: photographs -- 20th century. / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1906">1906</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Start Over Form photographs -- 20th century. Year 1906

Extent:: 1 box and 1.25 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of approximately 325 photographs (mostly copies) of American vessels, including steamboats, river and ferry boats, and ocean liners, that sailed from the 1860s to the 1920s, collected by Paul Cavicchia.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of postcards, photographs, wood engravings, memorabilia, and printed material collected by Robert Hopewell Hepburn relating to expeditions sent down to tropical South America in an attempt by the Brazilian government to construct a railroad along the Madeira River. Robert Hopewell Hepburn, a young engineer with the Pennsylvania Railroad System and a Princeton graduate of the Class of 1871, made the trip in 1878. He son undertook the same effort twenty-nine years later, sending back postcards to his father from Brazil.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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