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Danforth, Cooke & C.'s Locomotive & machine works. Paterson New Jersey – Vintage Wall Art

Danforth, Cooke & C.'s Locomotive & machine works. Paterson New Jersey, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
Danforth, Cooke & C.'s Locomotive & machine works. Paterson New Jersey, [no date recorded on shelflist card]. Historic print from the Locomotives 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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Step back in time with Danforth, Cooke & C.'s Locomotive & machine works. Paterson New Jersey, a historic print rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Danforth, Cooke & C.'s Locomotive & machine works. Paterson New Jersey

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Danforth, Cooke & Co. was one of the best-known builders of steam locomotives in the United States, and this print documents its plant in Paterson, New Jersey, a city that grew up around water-powered textile mills on the Passaic River. The firm was founded in the 1850s by Danforth and Cooke, and its Paterson works turned out engines for railroads across the country and abroad before the company was absorbed into the Rogers Locomotive Works in 1880. Works views like this one were often made for trade catalogs and promotional use, so they show the scale of the shops, the yards, and the finished machines that made the factory's reputation. The record gives no date, so the print is best understood as a picture of the industrial city during the peak years of American steam railroading.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bonar.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,219 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-112790

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