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Frightful accident on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near Allentown, Pa. – Historic Print

Frightful accident on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near Allentown, Pa., 1858 — antique engraving
Frightful accident on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near Allentown, Pa., 1858. Antique engraving 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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Step back in time with Frightful accident on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near Allentown, Pa., an antique engraving 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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A wood engraving of a wreck on the Lehigh Valley Railroad near Allentown, Pennsylvania, ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* on August 7, 1858. The weekly relied on engravings like this to show readers news events they could not witness themselves. The catalog tags point to a railroad bridge, a reminder of how often bridges and trestles failed in the decades before iron and steel construction became standard. Engravers of this period cut their designs into boxwood blocks, so the fine lines reflect both the artist's drawing and the engraver's skill.

Created / published1858
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1858 Aug. 7, p. 155. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Railroads--Comapnies--Lehigh Valley--1858; Railroads--Disasters--1858; Railroads--Bridges-Pa.--Allentown--1858; Pa.--Allentown--1858; Geogr.; Railroad bridges; Railroads--Accidents; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,143 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141316

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