Henry Dean Quinby III Collection of Photographs and Correspondence, ca. 1933-1957
Biography: H. D. Quinby: A Life in Transit
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
- Series 1: Photographs: may be sorted geographically, by correspondent, and/or chronologically, depending on information available. [Boxes 1-5]
- Subseries: United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, World, unknown locations
- Series 2: Paper ephemera [Box 5]
- Series 3: Postcards [Box 5]
- Series 4: Super Pak Snaps spiral-bound albums: numbered [Boxes 6-9]
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Series 1: Photographs
Subseries: United States
West (U.S.): California & Nevada, 1946-1948
Scope and Content Note
Los Angeles Transit Lines (2)
Southern Pacific narrow gauge, California (11)
Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad, Nevada (9)
1 letter and 1 envelope
West (U.S.): California
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San Francisco (3)
El Cerrito area (1)
Oakland (1)
North Western Pacific Railroad (1)
Los Angeles area (5)
California unknown (1)
West (U.S.): Colorado
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Denver & Intermountain Railroad (6)
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, 1948 (7)
Rio Grande Southern Railroad, including Galloping Goose, 1948 (6)
West (U.S.): Utah
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Utah-Idaho Central Railroad (4)
Bamberger Electric Railway (2)
Salt Lake, Garfield, & Western Railroad / Saltair (2)
West (U.S.): Texas
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Dallas Railway (3)
Middle West: Illinois & Wisconsin, one photo dated 1938
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Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad (3)
Middle West: Illinois & Indiana
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Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad (4)
Chicago Surface Lines (4) with 5 black-and-white negative transparencies, 4 of which match these prints
Chicago Surface Lines (1)
Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad (1)
South Shore Line (1)
Illinois-Iowa Power Co., Peoria (1)
Illinois Terminal Company, ca. 1950s (2)
Other Chicago, ca. 1945-1950s (5)
Newcastle, Indiana (1)
Possibly Indiana or Illinois (1)
Middle West: Iowa
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Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern (33)
Cedar Rapids & Iowa City (6)
Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern, 1948 (1)
Des Moines Railway, 1948 (1)
Middle West: Kansas
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Union Electric Railway (1)
Middle West: Michigan
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Possibly Detroit (1)
Middle West: Minnesota, 1949
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Twin City Rapid Transit (2)
Middle West: Minnesota
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To St. Paul (1)
Middle West: Nebraska
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Omaha (4)
Middle West: Ohio, 1939-1943
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Cincinnati Street Railway (7)
Middle West: Ohio
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Cleveland (1 booklet with 11 photographs)
Middle West: Ohio
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Cleveland (2)
Columbus, 1943 (1)
Youngstown & Southern (1)
SOE Railway (1)
Middle West: Wisconsin, 1946
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Milwaukee (8 contact prints)
Middle West: Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, & Southern States: Kentucky, West Virginia
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Illinois Terminal Company (13)
St. Louis Public Service Co. (1)
Marion Railways, Incorporated (Indiana) (7)
Indianapolis Railways, Inc. (3)
Cincinnati Newport & Covington Railway (Kentucky and Ohio) (4)
Cincinnati Street Railway (3)
Cleveland Transit System (2)
Co-operative Transit Co. (West Virginia) (1)
Wheeling Traction Co. (1)
Middle West and Southern States unknown locations (11)
1 photo processing envelope
Middle West: Illinois, 1943, & Southern States: West Virginia
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Chicago Rapid Transit, Loop (1)
Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co., Clarksburg, West Virginia (8)
Southern States: Virginia, 1946
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Roslyn, Virginia (1)
Southern States: Virginia
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Richmond, Virginia (4)
Southern States: West Virginia
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Tri City Traction Co., Princeton-Bluefield line (1)
City Lines (4)
Middle West: Kansas, Indiana, Ohio & Northeastern States: New York-Pennsylvania
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Utica (1)
Topeka (9)
Indiana Central Lines (1)
Other Indiana (2)
Springfield Traction Co., Ohio (1)
Buffalo & Lake Erie Traction Co. (1)
Buffalo & Erie Railway (1)
1 envelope with manuscript notes
Northeastern States: Connecticut
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Connecticut (4)
Northeastern States: Connecticut, 1941
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Connecticut Co., Hartford Division (1)
Northeastern States: Connecticut
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Set 1: Connecticut Co., 1941-1943 (7 photographs)
Set 2: Connecticut Co., 1941-1942 (1 letter, 1 envelope, 9 photographs)
Northeastern States: Connecticut
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New Haven, 1944 & 1947 (2)
Connecticut other (4)
Northeastern States: Connecticut & Pennsylvania, 1944-1947
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Connecticut (7)
Philadelphia (2)
Northeastern States: Maryland
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Possibly Maryland (3)
Possibly Frederick, Maryland (1)
Baltimore, Belvedere Loop (1)
Northeastern States: Massachusetts
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Boston Elevated Railway; 3 are dated: 1943, 1944, 1947 (20)
Boston & Maine Railroad (2)
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway (1)
Boston and Albany (3)
Northeastern States: New Jersey
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Atlantic City (3)
Orange to Newark, 1950 (11)
Newark, New Jersey (includes 29 Bloomfield) (23)
New Jersey misc. (1)
Northeastern States: New York
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Bemus Point, Mayville, Westfield (14)
Letter (1 page) and envelope dated 1947
Northeastern States: New York
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Near/north of New York City (3 booklets of 32 photographs total)
Northeastern States: New York
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Ithaca including Ithaca Street Railway Co. (2)
Southern New York (1)
Jamestown, Westfield, & Northwestern Railway (5)
Jamestown Street Railway Co. (3)
Buffalo & Lake Erie Traction Co. (1)
Chautauqua County, Chautauqua Traction Company (4)
Fredonia (1)
Rochester and area, including Lehigh Valley Railroad (14)
Rochester Transit Corp. (1)
Rochester & Sodus Bay, Rochester & Eastern (3)
Glen Haven (1)
Lake Shore Route (1)
New York City, including 20th Century Limited, Long Island City, Brooklyn, 2 dated 1943 (8)
Albany (11)
Schenectady Railway (3)
New York State unknown location (4)
Northeastern States: Pennsylvania
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (6 booklets of 32 photographs total)
1 strip of 2 negatives for photos in booklet marked "PB#12" [item 2.2.1]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (3 loose photos)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania(?), Philadelphia & Western (1 unbound booklet of 13 photographs)
Northeastern States: Pennsylvania
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Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (3)
Philadelphia (20)
Philadelphia & Western (2)
Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. (3)
Lehigh Valley Transit, Pennsylvania (2)
Hershey Transit, Pennsylvania (2)
Fayette County, Pennsylvania (2)
Southwestern Pennsylvania (probably) (9)
Mount Oliver Incline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (4)
Pittsburgh and probably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one dated 1940 (93)
Northeastern States: Pennsylvania
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76 Hamilton, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (3)
Northeastern States: Pennsylvania & New Jersey
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Connellsville (2)
Philadelphia (1)
Pennsylvania (possibly; maybe Pittsburgh or Philadelphia) (23)
Newark, 29 Bloomfield (3)
Newark City Subway (possibly) (6)
Negatives for this set of photographs (12 strips, 48 total images)
1 photo processing envelope
Northeastern States: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York
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Southwestern Pennsylvania (10)
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (8)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (18)
Johnstown Traction Company, Pennsylvania (7)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (6)
Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (1)
Pennsylvania unknown (2)
New Jersey (2)
New York City (4)
Canandaigua, New York (3)
Northeastern United States, unknown locations (14)
1 photo processing envelope
Northeastern States (possibly)
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Unknown locations (41)
Lackawanna Railroad (1 booklet of 5 photographs)
Great Lakes Region (North America): Ontario (Toronto) and New York (Rochester, Jamestown, Buffalo)
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1. Toronto and Ontario (5)
2. [missing or none]
3. Possibly Rochester (1)
4. Rochester: Lyell Avenue (7)
5. Rochester: Monroe Avenue-Central Avenue-Buffalo Road (16)
6. Rochester: St. Paul Street (12)
7. Jamestown: Jamestown, Westfield, & Northwestern Railway, 2 dated 1939 (6)
8. Possibly Jamestown (1)
9. Rochester (1)
10. Rochester, 1 dated 1941 (5)
11. Rochester and possibly outside of Rochester (4)
12. Rochester (7)
13. [missing or none]
14. Rochester, 1 dated 1940 includes H.D. Quinby Jr. (3), New York state? (2), New York Central Railroad at Buffalo (2)
15. New York state? (5), Rochester (4)
16. New York state? (7)
3 envelopes with manuscript notes
United States (assorted): Utah & New Hampshire
Scope and Content Note
Utah (8)
New Hampshire (1)
unknown United States (1)
United States (assorted): New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, California
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New York State Railways (2)
International Railway, Buffalo, New York (3)
Philadelphia Rapid Transit (3)
Fairmount Park Transit, Pennsylvania (2)
Washington & Old Dominion Railway, Washington D.C. (6)
Hagerstown & Frederick, Maryland (4)
Akron Transportation Co., 1 dated 1941 (2)
Cincinnati & Lake Erie, 1 dated 1933 (5)
Cincinnati & Georgetown, Ohio (1)
Lake Erie area (1)
Chicago & West Towns (5)
Wisconsin Public Service (3)
Sacramento Northern, California (9)
Letter (1 page) and envelope, dated 1947
Miscellaneous photographs
Correspondent E.J. [Edwin Jenyss] Quinby of Florida, "Interurban car at Jungle Junction" [model railroad] (1)
H.D. Quinby, "Model Street Car Layout, March 1943" (1)
United States (assorted): Connecticut, Maryland, Washington D.C., New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, New York, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, & Canada: Ontario, 1933-1949
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Group 1 (loose photos not associated with any particular correspondence from Woodbury; organized geographically)
Maine
Androscoggin & Kennebec Railway Co., Maine, 1935 (3)
New Hampshire
Claremont Railway, 1934 & 1940 (2)
Massachusetts
Boston Elevated Railway, 1 dated 1935 (2)
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad (1)
Connecticut
Connecticut Co., including at Bridgeport (1934); East Hartford (1933-1934); Hartford (1933-1935); New Haven, Yale Bowl (1935); New Haven (1935, 1940); Wethersfield (1934) (43)
Bristol Traction Company, Connecticut, 2 dated 1934 (3)
New Haven (Manufacturer's Railway), 1935 & 1936 (2)
New York
Brooklyn & Queens Transit, 1936, 1939, 1947-1949 (15)
Rochester Transit Corp., 1938 (5)
New York State Railways, Rochester, 1936 (1)
Jamestown, Westfield, & Northwestern Railway, 1940-1941 (2)
New Jersey
Atlantic City, 1935 and 1947 (3)
Pennsylvania
Altoona - Logan Valley Electric Railway, 1936 (1)
Pennsylvania Railways, 1938, 1946 (2)
Conestoga Traction Co., 1946 (7)
Washington D.C.
Capital Transit, Washington D.C., 2 dated 1942 (4)
Maryland
Baltimore & Annapolis (2)
Ohio
Akron Transportation Co. (1)
Cincinnati Street Railway, 1949 (5)
Cincinnati & Lake Erie, 1934 (1)
Cleveland Railway, 1934 and 1937 (4)
Illinois
Chicago & Calumet District Transit Co., 1933 (1)
Chicago & Joliet Electric Railway, 1933 (3)
Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad (2)
Chicago Transit Authority, 1949 (2)
Iowa
Des Moines Railway Co., 1939 (1)
Canada, Ontario
Brantford Railway, 1936 (1)
Group 2 (correspondence dated January 26, 1946; photos are dated 1935-1936)
Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad Co. (2)
Bangor Hydro-Electric Co, 1935 (2)
Biddeford & Saco Railroad Co., Maine, 1935-1936 (5)
Unknown location (2)
1 letter & 1 envelope
Group 3 (correspondence dated April 6, 1947; photos are dated 1934-1936)
Black River Traction, New York, 1934-1936 (6)
Boston Elevated Railway, 1935 (4)
1 letter & 1 envelope
Northeastern States: New York
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Rochester: City and Interurban, 1 Fotofolio photo album
15 loose photos originally kept in the album
Subseries: Canada
British Columbia, 1952
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British Columbia Electric Railway, March 21-22, 1952 (10)
Ontario, 1940
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London (4)
Ontario, 1941
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London & Port Stanley Railway, May-July 1941, one photo undated (9)
Kitchener & Waterloo Street Railway, and Grand River Railway, August 3, 1941, one photo undated (6)
Lake Erie & Northern Railway, August 4, 1941 (2)
Ontario
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Lake Erie & Northern Railway (6)
London & Port Stanley Railway (5)
Kitchener & Waterloo Street Railway (4)
Grand River Railway (3)
Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway (3)
Toronto Transportation Commission (23)
Canada, unknown locations
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Canadian National Railways (15)
Subseries: Central & South America
Mexico
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Cooperativa de Transportes Urbanos y Sub-Urbanos, Veracruz (3 booklets of 57 photographs total)
1 photo processing envelope
Uruguay
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Administracion Municipal de Transportes Colectivos de Montevideo (17)
1 envelope
Subseries: Europe: one country per folder
Belgium
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Antwerp, Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux / Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen (SNCV / NMVB) 55 at Groenendallaan (1)
Belgium
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Eupen (1)
Nieuwpoort (1)
Ostend (1)
France, 1955 & 1957
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Versailles (5)
France
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Lille (2)
Germany
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Frankfurt (6)
Mainz (5)
Bonn (1)
Siegburg (5)
Cologne (Koln) (7)
Germany, possibly along the Rhine (11)
1 photo processing envelope
Germany
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Group 1:
Braunschweig (6)
Essen (1)
Hannover (1) [on sheet with Braunschweig photos]
Jenner (?) Bergbahn (1)
Koblenz (2)
Koln (Cologne) (1)
Group 2 (numbered):
Germany, including Munich; also includes photos of "Mr. Price" and "Mr. Grundy" (Gundry?) who corresponded with Quinby; 3 photos are dated 1953 (17)
Group 3 (numbered; possibly the same photographer/correspondent of Group 2):
Germany unknown (1)
Near Koln (Cologne) or Koln district (2)
Bad Honnef, Koln district (1)
Bad Godesburg, Koln district (1)
Group 4:
Bochum-Gelsenkirchen, including a KSW-type (Kriegsstrassenbahnwagen) (3)
Gorlitz (1)
Munster (1)
West Germany car barn (1)
Koln (Cologne) (1)
Stralsund (1)
Group 5 (lettered A-H):
Germany including Koln and Bonn (9)
Group 6:
Bonn (1)
Dusseldorf (1)
Erfurt (1)
Frankfurt (1)
Koln (Cologne) (2)
Osnabruck (1)
Group 7: Photographer/correspondent possibly J.H. Price?
Hannover, 1947 (1)
Italy
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Genoa (1)
Poland
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Warsaw (1)
Sweden
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Stockholm (1)
Switzerland
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Basel including Birseckbahn (BEB) and Baselland Transport Birsigtalbahn (BTB) (13)
Esslingen (near Zurich) (2)
Zurich including Forchbahn and Uetlibergbahn(13)
Arth-Goldau train (1)
Other Switzerland unknown (4)
1 photo processing envelope
Ukraine (USSR)
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Stalino [since 1961 called Donetsk] (1)
United Kingdom: England & Wales
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England
Leeds (1)
Wales
Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Electric Railway (1)
United Kingdom: England, 1953
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London, Central Line (3)
United Kingdom: England
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Headcorn? possibly Hendon?, 1909 (1)
United Kingdom: England
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Newcastle upon Tyne (1)
United Kingdom: Scotland & Wales
Scotland
Edinburgh, Coronation Car (1)
Glasgow (1)
Wales
Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Electric Railway (1)
United Kingdom: England
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London Transport (5)
United Kingdom: England, Wales, & Scotland
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Group 1 (numbered):
Blackpool (3)
Birmingham (2)
Bristol (1)
London (1)
Manchester (1)
Isle of Thanet (1)
Croydon (Greater London) (1)
Llandudno (1)
Group 2:
Southampton (1)
Group 3:
Leeds (4)
Bulverhythe, Hastings (1)
Group 4, copyright The Bulletin (Glasgow):
Glasgow (1)
Subseries: Europe: multiple countries per folder
Austria, Belgium, & unknown Europe
Scope and Content Note
Austria
Innsbruck (1)
Belgium
Brussels (2)
Europe unknown, possibly Austria? (2)
Austria & Germany
Scope and Content Note
Austria
Innsbruck (1)
Germany
Hamburg (1)
Hannover, 1953 (1)
Munich, 3 dated 1953 (5)
Other unknown, probably Germany (1)
Austria & Germany
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Austria
Igls (2)
Germany
Cologne (Koln) (1)
Munich (1)
Belgium & Germany
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Belgium
Brussels, 1947 (1)
Germany
Berlin, 1938, 1943 (9) [some on same sheet as Hamburg due to size]
Essen (1)
Hamburg, 1942 (1)
Kiel (1)
1 letter (in German) dated 1948 & envelope
Belgium & Germany
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Germany
Krefeld (3)
Hannover (7)
Goslar (1)
Wolfenbuttel (1)
Brunswick (1)
Hamburg and vicinity (25)
Barmen (2)
Belgium
Brussels and vicinity (7)
Charleroi and vicinity (including Mellet) (11)
Czechoslovakia & Germany
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Czechoslovakia [Czech Republic]
Aussig [Usti nad Labem], German-occupied Czechoslovakia (1)
Germany
Ohligs-Opladen, Germany (1)
France, Germany, & Norway
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France
Bordeaux (2)
Germany
Berlin (1)
Norway
Oslo (2)
Ireland & Netherlands
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Ireland, in chronological order, June 6-11, 1953
Claremorris, no date (1)
Light Railway Transport League, Belfast (1)
Light Railway Transport League, Dublin (1)
Cavan & Leitrim Railway (4)
Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway (2)
County Donegal Railway (1)
West Clare Railway (3)
Tralee & Dingle Railway (5)
Netherlands, in chronological order, May 20-29, 1948
Nijmegen (1)
Rhenen (3)
Amsterdam (1)
Zandvoort (1)
Rotterdam Tram Co. (RET, Rotterdamse Elektrische Tramweg), near Rotterdam, includes picture of correspondent Mr. van Notten (6)
Hague Tram Co. (1)
Rotterdam (2)
Ireland & United Kingdom: Northern Ireland, 1953
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Ireland
Cavan & Leitrim Railway, 1953 (3)
County Donegal (1)
Tralee & Dingle Railway (2)
West Clare Railway, Ennistymon (1)
United Kingdom: Northern Ireland
Fintona, 1953 (2)
Netherlands & Switzerland, 1948
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Netherlands
GVA [Gemeentevervoerbedrijf Amsterdam?], Amsterdam (1)
Switzerland
Bern (1)
Berne-Neuchatel Railway (BLS) (1)
Gruyere-Fribourg-Morat (GFM) at Bulle (1)
Rhaetische Bahn (Rh.B) at Chur (1)
Montreux-Oberland Bernois Railway (MOB) (1)
Zurich (2)
Netherlands & Switzerland/Italy
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Netherlands
Noord-Zuid Hollandse Vervoer Maatschappij (NZH) (10)
Switzerland/Italy
Centovalli Railway, 1933 (2)
1 envelope postmarked 11 March 1946
1 envelope postmarked 26 August 1948
Netherlands & United Kingdom: Isle of Man, Northern Ireland
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Netherlands
Amsterdam, stamped "JHP" (1)
United Kingdom: Isle of Man
Douglas, 1956 (1)
United Kingdom: Northern Ireland
Londonderry, 1953 (4)
Subseries: Asia
China
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Shanghai (10)
China unknown location (1)
Japan
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Japan, northern Honshu, Aomori (prefecture), Ominato station (4)
Subseries: World
United Kingdom: Wales & Asia: India
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South Wales Transport Co. (1)
Calcutta, India, March-April 1945 (3)
Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas
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Europe
Austria
Innsbruck (4)
Klagenfurt (1)
Vienna (17)
Belgium
Brussels (1)
Charleroi (1)
Ghent (1)
Czechoslovakia, Prague (2)
Denmark, Copenhagen (2)
France
Dijon (2)
Le Havre (1)
Thionville (2)
Valenciennes (1)
Germany
Berlin (3)
Cologne (Koln) (1)
Dresden (1)
Essen (2)
Hamburg (1)
Jena (1)
Krefeld (1)
Magdeburg? (1)
Strasbourg (German-occupied) (1)
Stuttgart (1)
Westfalische Strassenbahn (1)
Greece, Athens (1)
Hungary, Budapest (3)
Italy
Florence (3)
Genoa (3)
Messina (1)
Milan (1)
Naples (2)
Rome (5)
Luxembourg (5)
Netherlands
Amsterdam (3)
Hague (1)
Haarlem (2)
Poland
Gleiwitz (1)
Katowice (1)
Krakow (1)
Warsaw (5)
Breslau (Wroclaw) (1)
Romania
Bucharest (2)
Timisoara (3)
Russia
Krasnodar (1)
Spain
Ferrocarril Zumarraga-Zumaya (1)
Ukraine
Lwow (L'viv) (1)
Yugoslavia (former republic)
Belgrade (1)
Ljubljana (1)
Nis (1)
Zagreb (3)
Egypt, Cairo (1)
China
Mukden (Shenyang) (1)
Shanghai (1)
Americas
Chile
Santiago (1)
Uruguay
Montevideo (1)
3 envelopes with notations
Subseries: Unknown locations, probably United States and Canada
78 loose photos, 1 booklet of 7 photos
Scope and Content Note
265 contact prints plus 1 photo processing envelope
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9 cut 35 mm negatives
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Series 2: Paper ephemera
U-Bahn map, December 1937
Correspondence from Donald Harnish of Los Angeles, dated February 21, 1944 (1 letter & 1 envelope)
The PTC Traveler, vol. XVIII, no. 6, Friday, March 14-Saturday March 29, 1947 (2 copies)
Announcement: New Streamliners on Route 43 of Philadelphia Transportation Company, July 29, 1948 (5 copies)
List of railway lines, possibly an inventory of photographs, undated (2 copies)
Document: "Six Yellow Boxes of Color Transparencies, Eight in Each Box", undated (7 leaves) [The color transparencies, or slides, themselves are missing from the collection.]
Shipping labels (2)
Clippings of pictures, 1 article
Transit ticket from North Vancouver (1)
Manuscript notes
Envelopes (2)
Rochester Transit Corporation lecture invitation, 1941 (1)
Photographic processing receipts (3)
Photograph mounting supplies
Series 3: Postcards
United States: West (U.S.)
California (including Cable Cars) (12)
Nevada, Virginia & Truckee Railroad (1)
Colorado (including Manitou & Pike's Peak Railway) (3)
United States: Northeastern States
Massachusetts (3)
New York (4)
Pennsylvania (2)
Buffalo & Lake Erie Traction Co. (1)
Canada
Ontario
Port Stanley (4 loose postcards, 1 view folder of 12 views)
Niagara Falls (2)
St. Thomas (1)
Toronto (1)
Quebec, Montreal (1)
Europe: Continental
Austria, Innsbruck (1)
Belgium, Brussels (1)
Germany
Drachenfels (2)
Hamburg (1)
Wurttemberg (1)
Munich (8)
Bundesbahn, unknown location (1)
Netherlands
Amsterdam (2)
Utrecht (2)
Europe: Scandinavia
Denmark
Copenhagen (4)
Lillebaeltsbroen (1)
Norway
Oslo (2)
Sweden
Stockholm (8)
Europe: England
Blackpool (9)
Brighton (3)
Hampton Court (1)
Leeds (1)
Liverpool (2)
Sheffield (4)
Swadlincote (1)
Series 4: Super Pak Snaps spiral-bound album collection
Scope and Content Note
Group 1
Mexico, Veracruz including Cooperativa de Transportes Urbanos y Sub-Urbanos (3 albums of 31 photographs total)
Group 2
Mexico, including Ferrocarril Mexicano, and Veracruz Cooperativa de Transportes Urbanos y Sub-Urbanos (3 albums of 37 photographs total)
Group 3
Mexico and possibly Cuba, including Mexico City (Compania de Tranvias de Mexico (Mexico Tramways Company?)), Ferrocarril Mexicano, and railcars marked Hershey which could be the Hershey Cuban Railway; 6.3a is marked "Horsecar in Mexico" (3 albums of 33 photographs total)
Group 4
Includes Newark City Subway, Hershey Cuban Railway(?), and others (1 album of 8 photographs total)
Group 5
Palma de Mallorca, Spain, including the Soller Tramway; also includes personal photos of family/friends, including H.D. Quinby's mother Mrs. Lloyd B. van da Linda (the former Alice Hamilton Onderdonk) (3 albums of 30 photographs total, plus one color photograph dated Dec. 8, 1956)
Group 6
Italy, including Rome (trams, Metropolitana di Roma, interurbans, Rome-Fiuggi Interurban; plus touristic photos of the Roman Forum), and Florence city transit (3 albums of 34 photographs total)
Includes manuscript note: "ROME City Lines, New Subway, Interurbans, Rome-Fiuggi Interurban, Florence City Trans"
Group 7
Italy, including Rome (trams, Rome-Fiuggi Interurban) and Venice (1 album of 18 photographs total)
Group 8
Austria, including Vienna (Stadtbahn, inter-urban to Gross Enzersdorf) (3 booklets of 34 photographs total)
Includes manuscript note: "AUSTRIA: Vienna - Trams, Subway, Interurban; Salzburg -Steam Line to Bad Ischl, Interurban to Lamprechthausen; Innsbruck - City & Interurban Trams"
Group 9
Austria, including Salzburg area, Alps Region, Igls (2 booklets of 23 photographs total)
Group 10
Switzerland-Italy border region, including Lugano and area, RhB (Rhatische Bahn), LCD (Lugano-Cadro-Dino), lake and Alps region (3 booklets of 34 photographs total)
Group 11
Italy, including lake and Alps region, Milan (3 booklets of 34 photographs total)
Includes manuscript note: "MILAN City Trams, Interurban Network (Sesto Battery Tram), The Milan-Magenta Steam Tram"
Group 12
Switzerland/Italy, including Centovalli Railway (Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi (FART)), Lago Maggiore and Alps region (3 booklets of 33 photographs total)
Group 13
Switzerland, including Rochers de Naye, Chemins de fer Electriques Veveysans, Villeneuve, Bern area, Solothurn-Niederbipp-Bahn (SNB), Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn (RBS) (3 booklets of 35 photographs total)
Group 14
Switzerland, including Villeneuve, Vevey, Gruyere-Fribourg-Morat railway, Chemins de fer Montreux-Oberland Bernois (MOB), Compagnie Generale des Tramways Electriques (Geneva) (CGTE) (3 booklets of 33 photographs total)
Group 15
Switzerland and Netherlands, including Compagnie Generale des Tramways Electriques (Geneva) (CGTE), Gemeentevervoerbedrijf (GVB) (Amsterdam) (3 booklets of 32 photographs total)
Group 16
Netherlands, including Haagsche Tramweg-Maatschappij (HTM) (Hague), Rotterdamsche Tramweg Maatschappij (RTM) (Rotterdam) (3 booklets of 35 photographs total)
Group 17
Netherlands, including Rotterdamsche Tramweg Maatschappij (RTM) (Rotterdam) (3 booklets of 35 photographs total)
Group 18
Belgium, including Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux / Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen (SNCV / NMVB) (Antwerp) (3 booklets of 35 photographs total)
Group 19
Belgium, including Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux / Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen (SNCV / NMVB) (including Waterloo line W) (3 booklets of 33 photographs total)
Group 20
Belgium, including Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux / Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen (SNCV / NMVB) (3 booklets of 34 photographs total)
Group 21
Belgium, including Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux / Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen (SNCV / NMVB) (including Liege region) (3 booklets of 34 photographs total)
Group 22
Belgium and France, including Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux / Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen (SNCV / NMVB), Compagnie L'Electrique Lille-Roubaix-Torcoing (ELRT) (3 booklets of 33 photographs total)
Group 23
Belgium and France, including Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux / Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen (SNCV / NMVB), Compagnie L'Electrique Lille-Roubaix-Torcoing (ELRT) (3 booklets of 36 photographs total)
Group 24
Belgium and England, including Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux / Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen (SNCV / NMVB); Blackpool Corporation Transport (including double-deck trams) and Isle of Man exhibition cars (3 booklets of 35 photographs total)
Includes manuscript note: "British Light Railway Transport League, May 1956 'Isle of Man' Convention, Blackpool, England: Isle of Man Railway, Manx Electric Railway, Douglas Horse Car Line"
Group 25
Isle of Man, including Snaefell Mountain Railway, Manx Electric Railway (3 booklets of 34 photographs total)
Group 26
Isle of Man, including Douglas Corporation Transport (3 booklets of 34 photographs total)
Group 27
England and Scotland, including Leeds City Transport, Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport (LCPT), Sheffield Corporation Tramways, Glasgow Corporation Transport, and including double-deck trams (3 booklets of 34 photographs total)
Group 28
England, Scotland, and Ireland, including Hill of Howth Tramway, Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway (R&ER), Glasgow Corporation Transport (3 booklets of 26 photographs total)
Unnumbered Group
Spain, Seville, including Transportes Urbanos de Sevilla Sociedad Anonima Municipal (TUSSAM, Tranvia de Sevilla) (4 booklets of 41 photographs total)