Conners, John Francis
Date: 1909
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of John Francis Connersas a young man. This photo was included in a research paper by Mary Francis Conners for an American History Class at Marfa High School in 1969.
Holding Partner: Marfa Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth39584/
State Street, Albany, N.Y.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Color postcard with a view up State Street in Albany, New York. Dozens of buildings line both sides of the street and the New York State Capitol sits at the top of the hill. Pedestrians, carriages, and trolley cars are in the street. Handwritten on the front, "Mother Aug 20" It is addressed to Mr. R.D. Sanders, Paris, Texas. It is postmarked Albany, N.Y. on Aug 21, 1906.
Holding Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth35744/
The Cave of the Winds in Winter, Niagara Falls
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Color photo postcard picturing the Cave of the Winds in Winter. Three large ice falls surround a solitary man standing in their midst. It is addressed to Miss Rosa Bassano, Paris, Tex. It is postmarked Niagara Falls, N.Y. on Sept 10, 1907.
Holding Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth35752/
["Twentieth Century Limited"]
Date: c. 1960
Creator: unknown
Description: New York Central's "The Twentieth Century Limited" train No.26, powered by diesel-electric locomotives, rills southward along the Hudson River enroute to New York, circa 1960.
Holding Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28669/
[Menu]
Date: 1964-09
Creator: unknown
Description: Menu from the automated restaurant on wheels in the consist of the New York Central Railroad's "World Fair Special" train No. 40, eastbound, enroute from Buffalo to New York, September 1964.
Holding Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28664/
[New York Central Locomotive]
Date: c. 1959
Creator: unknown
Description: New York Central's Electric locomotive No. 341, the type used on the head-end of passenger trains, awaits its next run over the electrified main line from Croton-Hampton to Grand Central Station, circa 1959. This rail distance is 32.7 miles. The railroad is also electrified to North White Plains on the Harlem Division, a distance of 24 miles.
Holding Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28696/
[Twin-unit dining car]
Date: c. 1960
Creator: unknown
Description: Dinner is now being served aboard the Twin-unit dining car in the consist of the New York Central's "Twentieth Century Limited", circa 1960.
Holding Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28668/
[Main Waiting Room at Pennsylvania Station in New York]
Date: c. 1970
Creator: unknown
Description: View of Main Waiting Room in Pennsylvania Station, New York, looking towards the Main Information Desk (left) and moving stairs (right). In the background are visible some of the ticket windows and near the head of the stairs the bronze statue of Samuel Rea, former president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Measuring 300 feet long, 110 feet wide and 150 feet tall, this room is comparable in size to the nave of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome. It could engulf an ordinary 15-story skyscraper.
Holding Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28754/
[Robert "Bob" K. Blackshear]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photo of Robert "Bob" K. Blackshear. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.
Holding Partner: Palestine Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11230/
Ship's Crew
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Copy negative of a big group of sailors and officers. In the picture there are a large number of sailors on a dock and aboard a ship, while nine officers wearing a white uniform are on the lower part of the dock standing side by side.
Holding Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth54454/