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[Photograph of Pearl Rambo]

Description: Portrait of Pearl Rambo, wearing a white dress with bows on the sleeves and a full skirt, white tights, and dark-colored boots. She is seated with her feet elevated atop a small, square object, perhaps a brick. Both the floor and wall behind Pearl Rambo are covered with a plaid pattered fabric. A hand written note on the back reads, "Pearl Rambo, age 14, weight 610 lbs."
Date: unknown
Creator: Wendt
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Maiden Run of "Pennsylvania Special"]

Description: Heading out of the old Exchange Place Station in Jersey City, a spindly Atlantic type 4-4-2 locomotive and four de luxe coaches begin the maiden run of the "Pennsylvania Special" in June of 1902. Twenty hours and 912 miles later she will enter Chicago having given birth to a new era in passenger travel. On that same day in June the New York Central Railroad's "Twentieth Century Limited" also went into service. By 1929 all of the Pennsy's Atlantics had given way to the famed K4s Pacifics on f… more
Date: June 1902
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad
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