#Titanic #ship #history #NYC
Olympic, Compared to US Buildings, 1911
The ‘class’ ship of the three-ship White Star Olympic Class (Olympic, Titanic, Britannic) is compared to New York skyscrapers.
from: Titanic of the White Star Trio: Olympic, Titanic, Britannic; Thomas E Bonsall; 1987; W H Smith.
#BUF #Niagara #breakfast #ushistory
Niagara Falls, The Home of Shredded Wheat
Unused postcard. Circa 1920s?
#NYC #harbor #ship
New York Harbor
from: The Wonderful Story of the Sea; A C Hardy; circa 1948?; Odhams Press.
#map #CNJ #railroad #ushistory
The Central Railroad of New Jersey, circa 1920
from: The New World Atlas and Gazetteer; 1923; P F Collier and Son, New York.
#transit #ushistory #railroad
Double-deck Streetcar 1893
‘The roomy double-decker Columbia of the Jamestown (NY) Street Railway is pictured at Celoron Park about 1893. The design, built by the Pullman Palace Car Company, represented the work of George M Pullman and H H Sessions. The motorman’s upper deck enclosure resembled a pilothouse.’
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There are cabs for the motorman in both ends of the car. At the top right corner, the motorman is ready to drive the vehicle forward. At the top left corner is the empty cab for the return trip.
from: The Time of the Trolley, William D Middleton; 1967; Kalmbach Books.
#Normandie #NYC #ushistory
Epic Feat of Salvage
” … After a disastrous fire, the giant French liner, Normandie, turned over at her Hudson River Pier, New York, in 1942. Before salvage operations could be begun, her huge superstructure had to be cut away and her hull made watertight. She is seen lying on her side before thousands of tons of water were pumped out of her. She was eventually towed away.”
from: The Wonderful Story of the Sea; AC Hardy; c1950; Odhams Press, London.
#NYC #NewYork #history
“View of Lower Manhattan, New York City”
Unused postcard from the early 1960s (?)
#Charlotte #NY #ushistory
The Blast Furnace, Charlotte, New York
Postcard mailed 1908.
#mta #nyc #railroad
Mass Transit for the Masses
Earlier today I reblogged a post suggesting that urban designers should spend more time on subway design and less on bicycles. In Canada, this is particularly appropriate as all the Bixi racks have been removed for the winter. So here are a few pictures looking at the historical art of moving large numbers of people in large cities.
“Several American cities used elevated railways, trestled over the streets. Compared with earlier modes of transport, they were noisy and most destructive of amenities, but they were cheap and useful, and were widely used from the 1870s onwards, particularly in New York City where the serpentine rock forming Manhattan Island was scarcely inviting to those who might otherwise have promoted the introduction of underground lines.
“Steam traction was used until early in the 1900s, when legislation forbade the emission of smoke by locomotives in the central city area. Shown is a train on the Third Avenue Elevated in the 1890s. The locomotive is a Forney 0-4-4 tank engine, which became the commonest type on the elevated lines. The Eames vacuum brake was used, for so short was the distance between each stop that there was no time to keep up the pressure of air brakes.”
from: The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways, Hamilton Ellis; 1968; Hamlyn.
