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The Ulster and Deleware Railroad in the Catskills – Vintage Wall Art

The Ulster and Deleware Railroad in the Catskills, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
The Ulster and Deleware Railroad in the Catskills, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Catskills 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 The Ulster and Deleware Railroad in the Catskills. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Ulster and Deleware Railroad in the Catskills

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The Ulster and Delaware Railroad was among the most important lines in the Catskills, carrying summer visitors from the Hudson Valley into the mountains and hauling bluestone, tanbark, and lumber back down. Financed in large part by Kingston's Thomas Cornell and built in the early 1870s, the line helped turn remote valleys into resort country, with hotels and boarding houses rising along its route. The Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American railroads and scenery for commercial sale around 1900, made this view, though the caption card gives no date.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 014505. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Detroit shelf; Geogr.; Railroads.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,184 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149799

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