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Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad – Historic Print

Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad, Rochester, N.Y., 1883. — vintage poster
Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad, Rochester, N.Y., 1883.. Vintage poster from the Trains 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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A window into the past: Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad

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Few railroad posters of the period name their route as plainly as this one does, tying Rochester, New York, to Pittsburgh in its title alone. The Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad was built largely to move coal and iron ore for the industrial district of western Pennsylvania, and its lines fed the mills and furnaces of that region. The date of 1883 comes from an unverified caption card, so the occasion behind the poster is uncertain. It still shows how railroads of the era advertised themselves to shippers and travelers.

Created / publishedRochester, N.Y., 1883.
Medium1 print (poster) : color ; 57 x 36 cm.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,000 × 4,592 px · prints to 10 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172677

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