The Old and The New. Where the Rochester and Eastern Rapid Railway... [portion of front caption] (1front) [e0027ac1)

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Title	The Old and The New. Where the Rochester and Eastern Rapid Railway... [portion of front caption] (1front) [e0027ac1)
Creator	Published by The Rochester News Company, Rochester N. Y. U. S. A.. Leipzig, Dresden [indicated on back only]
Subject--front	Animal teams Mules Horses Railroad bridges Embankments Clouds Electric lines Grasses Towpaths Trees Utility Poles Color Postcards Canal boats Railroads Railroad tracks Towing Canals
Description--Front	Front caption reads: "The Old and The New." [top of card]; "Where the Rochester and Eastern Rapid Railway tracks cross the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal when first built and for some time after, was the only means of transportation aside from the highways, across New York state." [bottom of card]. Three draft animals - a horse and two mules - are pulling a barge along Erie Canal; overhead, a single green train car crosses the bridge spanning the canal and the towpath. People on the train and writing on side of the train are indiscernible.
Coverage--geographic	[unknown]
Date Original	1909?
Publisher	Graduate School of Library and Information Studies--Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Language	eng
Source Height	3.5"
Source Width	5.5"
Source	Waterways Post Card Collection of Thomas T. Surprenant: Erie Canal
Type	Text; Image
Digitization Specifications	Archive masters were scanned at 600 ppi, 24 bit color using a Canon CanoScan 8800F and SilverFast Ai scanning software and saved as uncompressed TIFFs using Photoshop CS4 and Mac OS 10.5.8. Derivative access files were saved as medium quality JPEGs, 150dpi, 1000 pixels on the long dimension. Thumbnails were generated automatically by CONTENTdm.
Date Digital	2010-10-05
Resource Identifier	e0027ac1.jpg
Format	JPEG
Format [Medium]	Postcards
File Size	160176 Bytes
Checksum	2083871548
Height (of Digital image)	656 pixels
Width (of Digital Image)	1000 pixels
Color Space	sRGB
Rights Management	Contact Thomas T. Surprenant, ebeltoms@nyc.rr.com
Contributing Institution	Graduate School of Library and Information Studies--Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Digitization Team	GSLIS 757, Digital Imaging, Fall 2010: Katrin Maier, Otto Luna
OCLC number	827337222

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