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To all locomotive engineers throughout the globe, members of the brotherhood – Historic Reproduction

To all locomotive engineers throughout the globe, members of the brotherhood, c1875. — historic print
To all locomotive engineers throughout the globe, members of the brotherhood, c1875.. Historic print from the Railroads & Depots collection.

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The title addresses "all locomotive engineers throughout the globe, members of the brotherhood," which points to a fraternal print made for the railroad engineers' union movement of the 1870s. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, founded in 1863, was one of the earliest and most influential of the railroad brotherhoods, and its members often displayed decorative sheets like this one to show loyalty to the order. Such prints combined lettering with allegorical or emblematic imagery, and they were meant as much to express shared identity as to convey information. The record's attribution to a F.J. Kallenback is noted as unverified, so the maker should be treated as uncertain.

Created / publishedc1875.
Medium1 print.
NotesF2721 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kallenback, F.J.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,208 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116846

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