Horseshoe Curve

Horseshoe Curve

Photograph

Horseshoe Curve

From The Scenery of the Pennsylvania Railroad


ca. 1870
Albumen silver print
Image: 3 5/16 × 6 1/2 in. (8.4 × 16.5 cm)
Mount: 3 1/4 × 6 15/16 in. (8.3 × 17.7 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1981.4006.0001
Inscriptions Inscribed in negative on recto, BR: SHOE CURVE
Printed on mount on recto, LC: The Scenery of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Printed on mount on recto, RC: Photographed by W. T. Purviance, Philadelphia.
Stamped on verso, RC: OTIS.
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