Catalogue description The D E Parr collection of photographs of locomotives of the Great North of Scotland Railway

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Details of The Parr Collection
Reference: The Parr Collection
Title: The D E Parr collection of photographs of locomotives of the Great North of Scotland Railway
Description:

The photographs show static views of Great North of Scotland Railway locomotives, some featuring staff posed on the footplate and on the track, and may have been the work of the nineteenth-century photographer R H Bleasdale whose work is extensively represented in the LPC Collection. (Further references to R H Bleasdale and the LPC Collection are to be found in other NRM collections).

 

The collection is listed. Details given of wheel arrangement, engine number, angle of view and LPC reference number.
Date: c1885-1900
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Parr, D E, fl 1885-1900
Physical description: 8 negatives
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

This collection of 8½ x 6½ ins glass plate negatives originally formed part of the Locomotive Publishing Company (LPC) collection.

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