Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2008.1008.1.519Description
Black & white print. Snapshot. Mounted on tan matboard. Image of the aftermath of a train wreck. Steam engine upright on tracks in front of a line of smoldering debris. Second engine in debris behind tender of first. Workmen at front of wreckage & among debris at left. Four men carrying a white canvas stretcher in foreground. Man in dark suit walking toward wreckage. Scrubby ground in foreground. Engine at front is 1279.
Newspaper caption pasted to lower mat margin: "Photo by Harry G. Jones. The O'neil Wreck. Eleven box cars were piled up & burned in the space where three men are seen standing on a car at the left side of the picture & engines. Engine 1729 was covered with wreckage until the woodwork was burned away. The car on which the men are standing was the twelfth car back from the engine."
Written on back in pencil: "These pictures are of the O'neil train wreck in May, 1900 caused by an open switch & resulted in the death of 5 men, the destruction of two engines & the loss of eleven cars of merchandise". [on white adhesive label] "Train Wrecks"
Mounted on acidic matboard. Cutdown from original size - edges rough & uneven. Mat bent horizontally through center; back scuffed; surface torn at lower edge near center. Emulsion cracked at bend; scratched & soiled. Mat warped.Collection
Photograph Collection