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Kean Collection (#8)

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Background imageKean Collection: A Picnic In The Country

A Picnic In The Country
Illustration of a picnic in the country circa 1880. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Oil Wells

Oil Wells
Illustration of the oil regions of Pennsylvania. Leaving Schaffer fot Pithole City circa 1865. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Fire Engine Advert

Fire Engine Advert
An advert for Hollys patent rotary steam fire engine circa 1865. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Fire Engine

Fire Engine
Illustration of Silsby, Mynderse and Cos steam fire engine as seen in Scientific American on February 25, 1860. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Iron And Steel Advert

Iron And Steel Advert
An advert for the Plimpton Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company showing the works in Walpole, Massachusetts circa 1865. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Electric Light Machine

Electric Light Machine
Illustration of Holmes Magneto Electric Light Apparatus which was exhibited at the International Exhibition in 1862. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Gold Prospecting

Gold Prospecting
Illustration of gold prospecting in California 1850. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Gold Prospecting

Gold Prospecting
Illustration of gold prospecting circa 1850. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Vista Of Colonial Savannah, Georgia

Vista Of Colonial Savannah, Georgia
A view of the city of Savannah, Georgia, from across the Savannah River shows boats in the harbor below the town, 1778. (Image from Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Handmade Logging Train

Handmade Logging Train
A hand-made, jerry-rigged, locomotive built round a steam engine circa 1890. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: New York Elevated Railroad Train

New York Elevated Railroad Train
Illustration of a Forney locomotive for the New York Elevated Railroad built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia in 1878. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Dartmouth College Founding

Dartmouth College Founding
Illustration of the founding of Dartmouth College in 1769, Hanover, New Hampshire. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: New York Elevated Railroad Train

New York Elevated Railroad Train
Illustration of a Forney locomotive for suburban traffic on the New York and Harlem railroad built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works circa 1880. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: The Coranada Locomotive

The Coranada Locomotive
Illustration of the Coranada locomotive built for the 20 inch gauge railroad by H. K. Porter and Co of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania circa 1890. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: The Fontaine Locomotive

The Fontaine Locomotive
Illustration of the Fontaine locomotive built by the Grant Locomotive Works of Paterson, New Jersey in 1881. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Steam Inpection Car

Steam Inpection Car
Illustration of a steam inspection car designed and constructed by Mr. Jay Noble, master mechanic for M. M. Buck & Co. of St. Louis, Missouri in 1876. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Canoe Building

Canoe Building
Illustration of traditional canoe building published by Selmar Hess of New York circa 1890. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: California Pony Express

California Pony Express
Illustration of a California Pony Express rider circa 1860. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Gathering Wild Rice

Gathering Wild Rice
Illustration of traditional wild rice gathering by canoe circa 1840. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Attack On The Mail

Attack On The Mail
Illustration of an attack on a Wells Fargo mail coach circa 1860. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Electric Carriage

Electric Carriage
Illustration of travelling on an electric carriage built by Immisch and Company in 1888. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: American Cycling

American Cycling
Illustration of the crank-pedal bicycle made by Thomas Pickering circa 1880. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Elevated Railroad

Elevated Railroad
Illustration of a proposed elevated railroad terrace for Broadway, New York City circa 1860. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Ammonia Railroad

Ammonia Railroad
Illustration of an ammonia powered railroad car exhibited at the Worlds Fair held in Chicago, Illinois in 1893. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Albany Street Railway

Albany Street Railway
An Albany Street Railroad car circa 1885. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Telegraph House

Telegraph House
Illustration of the exterior of a telegraph house in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland in 1858. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Atlantic Cable Laying

Atlantic Cable Laying
Illustration of workers on board the Great Eastern splicing the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable in July 1865. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Atlantic Cable Break

Atlantic Cable Break
Illustration of workers searching for a fault after recovery of the telegraph cable from the bed of the Atlantic ocean in August 1858. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Atlantic Cable Laying

Atlantic Cable Laying
Illustration of workers getting out one of the large buoys used in the laying of the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable in August 1865. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Harvard College

Harvard College
Illustration of the exterior of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts circa 1760. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: LIfting Rail Cargo

LIfting Rail Cargo
Illustration of the transferring of goods from the broad gauge to the narrow gauge railway at Gloucester, England circa 1850. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: New York Railway Engine

New York Railway Engine
Illustration of a compressed air motor for the elevated railroad engines of New York City in 1987. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Logging Train

Logging Train
A cross-country logging railroad train in Oregon circa 1890. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: The Soldiers Orphans

The Soldiers Orphans
Illustration of two children orphaned by war engraved for Petersons Magazine circa 1865. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: The Mounted Policeman

The Mounted Policeman
Illustration of a mounted policeman circa 1865. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: NYPD Uniforms

NYPD Uniforms
Illustration of the new regulation uniforms for the New York Police Department. Left to right are Captain, cap cover for rain, Chief, Reserve Corps

Background imageKean Collection: The Village School

The Village School
Illustration of children inside the village school. Painted by Thomas Webster in 1845. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Vassar College

Vassar College
Illustration of the exterior of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York circa 1870. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Yale College

Yale College
Illustration of the exterior of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut circa 1860. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Yale College

Yale College
Illustration of the exterior of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut circa 1830. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Jewish Bakery

Jewish Bakery
Illustration of the preparation of unleavened bread in a jewish bakery circa 1880. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Purim Ball

Purim Ball
Illustration of the Purim Ball. One of the great hebrew holidays in commemoration of Esthers deliverance of the Jews from Haman. Taken from Frank Leslies Popular Monthly circa 1880

Background imageKean Collection: Emigrants At Cork Quay

Emigrants At Cork Quay
Illustration of emigrants arrival at the quay in Cork, Ireland in May 1851. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Emigrants At Agents Office

Emigrants At Agents Office
Illustration of emigrants paying for passage at the Agents Office in Cork, Ireland in May 1851. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: Atlantic Cable Laying

Atlantic Cable Laying
Illustration of the old frigate Iris with her freight of cable alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness. The Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable passed from the hulk to the Great Eastern in 1965

Background imageKean Collection: Heading West

Heading West
Illustration of emigrants on the Ohio River during the westward expansion of the United States circa 1840. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: In The Bitter Cold

In The Bitter Cold
Illustration of a mother and children outside in the bitter cold for Petersons Magazine circa 1877. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageKean Collection: A Little Street Sweeper

A Little Street Sweeper
Illustration of a little street sweeper begging circa 1860. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)



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