Catalogue description The R Mills collection of railway prints

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Details of The Mills Collection
Reference: The Mills Collection
Title: The R Mills collection of railway prints
Description:

This collection of prints compiled by R Mills is a wide-ranging accumulation of historic images covering railways in Britain from the late-nineteenth century to the 1960s. They are typically views of static locomotives, but with some images of passing trains, taken on the SECR, LNWR, Midland, Lancashire & Yorkshire, Great Central, and North British Railways, together with lines in Wales and Ireland.
Date: 1880-1965
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Mills, R, fl 1880-1965
Physical description: Approx 3,000 prints
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

The photographs were acquired from a variety of sources, often from material now held by the NRM, such as the LPC, LGRP and Pearce Higgins collections.

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