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State carriage for his highness the Vice-roy of Egypt--Built by T.W. Wason & Co., Springfield, Mass., U.S. / Des. & lith. by Bingham, Dodd & Co., Hartford, Conn. – Antique Print

State carriage for his highness the Vice-roy of Egypt--Built by T.W. Wason & Co., Springfield, Mass., U.S. / Des. & lith. by Bingham, Dodd & Co., Hartford, Conn., [between 1850 and 1900] — antique lithograph
State carriage for his highness the Vice-roy of Egypt--Built by T.W. Wason & Co., Springfield, Mass., U.S. / Des. & lith. by Bingham, Dodd & Co., Hartford, Conn., [between 1850 and 1900]. Antique lithograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare antique lithograph captures State carriage for his highness the Vice-roy of Egypt--Built by T.W. Wason & Co., Springfield, Mass., U.S. / Des. & lith. by Bingham, Dodd & Co., Hartford, Conn. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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State carriage for his highness the Vice-roy of Egypt--Built by T.W. Wason & Co., Springfield, Mass., U.S. / Des. & lith. by Bingham, Dodd & Co., Hartford, Conn.

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A state carriage built for the Vice-roy of Egypt is an unusual subject for a railroad print, since most such images show ordinary American passenger cars. The car was built by T.W. Wason & Co. of Springfield, Massachusetts, a firm known for railway passenger coaches, and the design and color lithograph were produced by Bingham, Dodd & Co. of Hartford, Connecticut. Egypt's rulers were then expanding its rail network, which had begun with the Alexandria to Cairo line in the 1850s, so an elaborate car for the viceroy shows how American builders reached overseas customers.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1900]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreLithographs Color 1850-1900.
SubjectsRailroad private cars--Egypt--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,463 × 1,162 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216076

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