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Fitchburg Railroad Company Composite images of railroad tracks going around a curve

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05235.09 Author/Creator: Fitchburg Railroad Company Place Written: East Deerfield, Mass. Type: Header Record Date: 1893 ca. Pagination: 5 cyanotypes. Order a Copy

Five copies (three double exposures) of a curve in the rail line near the Deerfield River.

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