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[Percy W. McClellan photographs pertaining to Panama Railroad Co.].
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Title:
[Percy W. McClellan photographs pertaining to Panama Railroad Co.]Creator/Contributor:
McClellan, Percy W., creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Fassold, Peter, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Le Rue Lemer, photographer.Abstract:
Photographs pertaining to the Panama Railroad Co. and other scenes of Panama. Includes a view of Front Street and the general
office building of Panama Railroad Co.; company staff, including Percy W. McClellan, in a residence and an office; railroad
property along the water; two views of Pacific Mail Steamship Co. ships in Isla de Naos (Naos Island) Bay and Perico Island;
a church in Panama; and a group portrait, perhaps a crew of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., including Percy W. McClellan.
Date:
1890 (issued)Subject:
ncpn---Panama -- Photographs
Panama
Panama Railroad Co -- Photographs
Pacific Mail Steamship Company -- Photographs
Panama Railroad Co.
Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
McClellan, Percy W -- Photographs
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Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer's stamp on 4 mounts: "Peter Fassold, landscape photographer, Panama". Other identifeid photographer: Le Rue Lemer
(Harrisburg, Pa.).
Hand-written annotation pertaining to former owner on back of one mount: "Panama Railroad property, maybe 1890? Percy W. McClellan,
purchasing agent of Woodstock, Conn. & Haverhill, Mass. 1866-1916." McClellan's name is also written on other mounts.
Purchase ; From Michael Maslan ; 2020.
Panama Railroad photographs, BANC PIC 2020.091, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Albumen prints.
Physical Description:
photoprint
9 photographs in 1 folder : albumen prints on card mounts ; prints 17 x 23 cm, mounts 26 x 31 cm
Language:
English