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No. 999 exhibited by the N.Y.C.R.R., World's Fair, '93 / Photograph by H.N. Tiemann, New York. – Historic Photograph Print

No. 999 exhibited by the N.Y.C.R.R., World's Fair, '93 / Photograph by H.N. Tiemann, New York., 1893 — historic photograph
No. 999 exhibited by the N.Y.C.R.R., World's Fair, '93 / Photograph by H.N. Tiemann, New York., 1893. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of No. 999 exhibited by the N.Y.C.R.R., World's Fair, '93 / Photograph by H.N. Tiemann, New York.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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No. 999 exhibited by the N.Y.C.R.R., World's Fair, '93 / Photograph by H.N. Tiemann, New York.

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No. 999 was the New York Central's express locomotive, and this print shows it as the railroad chose to present it at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The engine had already earned fame hauling the Empire State Express between New York and Buffalo, so the fair display was a chance to show the public the machine behind the railroad's fast passenger service. The photograph is by H.N. Tiemann of New York, and it records a moment when railroads used world's fairs to display their engineering to large crowds.

Created / published1893
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.
SubjectsNew York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company--1890-1900. World's Columbian Exposition--(1893 :--Chicago, Ill.)--Exhibitions and displays. Railroad locomotives--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,145 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160910

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