Title

Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, showing Mount Pisgah', c1897.

Caption

'Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, showing Mount Pisgah', c1897. The Mauch Chunk and Summit railroad operated between 1828 and 1932 delivering coal to barges in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Mauch Chunk was the original 1818 name of the borough of Jim Thorpe. From "A Tour Through the New World America", by Prof. Geo. R. Cromwell. [C. N. Greig & Co., London, c1897]

Date

1897

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F13_012

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

80,8Mb (3,5Mb) / 20,1in x 15,7in / 6016 x 4697 (300dpi)

Keywords

photograph landscape transport transportation exterior outdoors scenic woods woodland hill wood train boat boats discovery arts mountain mountains MID-ATLANTIC industry country book view geography railway cargo dress canal New World scenery location century barge Pennsylvania vista clothing literature wagon concept B&W mount pisgah freight train MONOCHROME extraction coal mining region United States of America Coal Industry Day 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W Jim Thorpe nineteenth century American history historic America USA The Print Collector geographical feature TGN United States of Amercia waggon freight wagon outside photograph landscape united states Unknown Cromwell George Co Mauch Chunk Carbon county George Cromwell Professor George Cromwell Professor George R Cromwell George R Cromwell Mauch Chunk & Summit Hill Railway Mt Pisgah Tour Through the New World America George R Geo R Cromwell CN Greig & Co CN Greig &