Glass Negative Prints
From Collections of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
These are examples of rare images that have been preserved from glass plates.
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Wet Plate Glass Negative, original size 8”x10”: Builder’s photograph of Philadelphia & Reading Railway 4-4-0 locomotive Perkiomen, at Reading Shops, Reading, Berks County, Pa., 1868. |
Wet Plate Glass Negative, original size 7”x9”: Builder’s photograph, Morris and Essex Railroad 0-4-0T No. 78, the Joe Scranton, c.1870. |
Dry Plate Glass Negative, original size 7”x9”: Pennsylvania Railroad class H3b “Consolidation”-type locomotive No. 4188 at Jersey City, NJ in October 1916. |
Dry Plate Glass Negative, original size 5”x7”: Babcock Lumber Company Shay locomotive climbing through a lumbering camp at Jellico River, Tennessee, c.1890s. |
Dry Plate Glass Negative, original size 5”x7”: DL&W tower operator, c.1910. Photo by William B. Barry, Jr. |
Extensive activities are ongoing to preserve historic railroad materials, whether they be rail cars, workers' tools, books, negatives or photos.
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