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    271 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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    401 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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Results for "Untitled (Pennsylvania Railroad Engine)"11 records

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Confederate Method of Destroying Rail Roads at McCloud Mill, Virginia by Andrew Joseph Russell, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Confederate Method of Destroying Rail Roads at McCloud Mill, Virginia

Andrew Joseph Russell (d. 1902)

1863 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Untitled (Pennsylvania Railroad Engine) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Untitled (Pennsylvania Railroad Engine)

Unrecorded maker

c. 1868 · Photograph, albumen print from a wet collodion negative

Cleared · CC0

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Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia by Andrew Joseph Russell, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia

Andrew Joseph Russell (d. 1902)

1863 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Steamboats Passing at Midnight – On Long Island Sound by Currier & Ives, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Steamboats Passing at Midnight – On Long Island Sound

Currier & Ives (d. 1907)

1868–74 · Hand-colored lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

The Adams Express Co.

Charles Parsons (d. 1910)

1855 · Lithograph, printed from two stones, hand-colored

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

[Pennsylvania Railroad Engine]

Unknown

1865–69 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

The Danger Signal

Currier & Ives (d. 1907)

1884 · Lithograph, printed in oil colors

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

The Danger Signal

Currier & Ives (d. 1907)

1884 · Lithograph, printed in oil colors

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Crossed by "A Milk Train"

Currier & Ives (d. 1907)

1885 · Hand-colored lithograph with gum arabic

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Crossed by "A Milk Train"

Currier & Ives (d. 1907)

1885 · Hand-colored lithograph

In copyright

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The MetSimilar

No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Snoqualmie Falls

Grafton Tyler Brown (d. 1918)

1886 · Oil on board

In copyright

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