Atlantic & Great Western Railway, 1862

Not on View

series Title

Atlantic & Great Western Railway

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 18.7 × 23.5 cm (7 3/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
mount: 25.5 × 32.8 cm (10 1/16 × 12 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2006.133.117

Artists / Makers

James F. Ryder (artist) American, 1826 - 1904

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

lower center below image on mount, stamped in gold: J. F. Ryder, Photographist, Cleveland, O. / Atlantic & Great Western Railway.; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 30; on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 30 / 3000-; lower left in graphite: 4864

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary

Exhibition History

2017: East of the Mississippi, National Gallery of Art, Washington; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 2017 - 2018, no. 131.

Bibliography

1904: Ryder, James, "Photographing a Railroad", American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times-Bulletin Almanac for 1904, (1904): 144-146.