Known Railroad-Related Lithographs byCurrier & Ives |
Numbers reflect Conningham (C) and
Gale (G) catalog numbers, if known.
Please tell me if you know of additional Currier
& Ivers prints with railroad subjects.
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Ice-Boat Race on the Hudson C3021-G3258 |
The Rail Road Suspension Bridge: Near Niagara
Falls 1856 C5056-G5479 |
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Across the Continent: Westward Course of Empire
Takes Its Way 1868 C0033-G0039 |
Through To The Pacific C6051-G6527 |
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Prairie Fires of the Great West 1871 C4859-G5269 |
The Great West 1870 C2658-G2879 |
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Lookout Mountain Tennessee: And the Chattanooga
Railroad 1866 |
Pensylvania Rail Road Scenery note mis-spelling C4745-G5143 |
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American Railroad Scene: Snow Bound C0187-G0201 (Image idenitifed as a scene on the Great Northern Railroad. The figure leaning on the shovel near the center is identified as James J. Hill.) |
The Route to California: Truckee River Sierra-Nevada 1871 |
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American Railroad Scene: Lightning Express Leaving
the Junction 1871 C0185-G0199 |
American Railway Scene: at Hornellsville, Erie
Railway (Re-work of American Railroad Scene: Lightning Express Leaving the Junction) |
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American Railway Scene: at Hornellsville, Erie
Railway (Re-work of American Railroad Scene: Lightning Express Leaving the Junction) |
The Danger Signal: United States Mutal Accident
Association about 1884 C1350-G1474 |
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The Night Express: The Start C4473-G4856 |
The Lightning Express Trains: Leaving The Junction C3535-G3803 |
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The Lightning Express | The Through Express |
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Night Scene at a Junction |
Night Scene At an American Railway Junction C4476-G4863 (Image identified as having originated on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. It is not known whether the yard was in Boston or New Haven.) |
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The Express Train 1870 C1792-G1944 (Image identified as an Erie railroad cut near Jersey City, NJ.) |
The Express Train C1790-G1947 (Image identified as a scene on the New York & Erie Railroad, and supposedly the earliest Currier railroad scene. It is reported as having been copied from a bank note of the Bank of Port Jervis. Unfortunately, no such scene is known from Port Jervis notes. However, this scene is known from several other New York institutions of the early 1850s.) |
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The Express Train C1791-G1943 |
The Express Train (Scene identified as having originated as a copy of an 1842 woodcut showing the Boston & Albany Railroad at Greenbush (East Albany), NY.) |
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American Express Train |
American Express Train 1855 C0129-G0142 (Image identified as having been copied from an 1853 poster of the New York Central Railroad.) |
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The Accomodation Train 1876 |
A Limited Express: Five Seconds for Refreshments 1884 C3542-G3812 |
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Darktown Trolley: Through
Car in Danger C1435-G1560 |
The Great Race for the Western Stakes, 1870 C2643-G2863 (Image shows Commodore Vanderbilt atop locomotives of the Hudson River Railroad and the New York Central Railroad. James Fisk rides an Erie Railroad locomotive.) |
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Progress of the Century: The Lightning Steam Press.
The Electric Telegraph. The Locomotive. The Steamboat. 1876 C4959-G5379 |
The Statue Unveiled: |
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Blood Will Tell C0571-G0638 |
Blood Will Tell C0572-G0639 |
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A Kiss in the Dark C3347-G3613 |
Crossed by "A Milk Train" C1862-G1429 |
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More Plucky Than Prudent |
Off His Nut C4540-G4928 |
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A Nightmare in the Sleeping Car: "Oh, I was s-o-o dry!" Chorus, - "Dry up and Bust." C4478-G4857 |
A Short Stop at a Way Station: The Polite Conductor C5500-G5900 |
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A Wild Cat Train: No Stop Overs C6664-G7206 |
Wrecked by a Cow Catcher C6792-G7339 |
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Waking Up The Wrong Passenger: "I say old man! Keep your hooks out of my trousers." C6491-G7015 |