Wreck at Boonville, N.Y. Showing Bed Of Canal. No.14 July 4, 08 [handwritten front caption] (1front) [k0014ac1]

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Title	Wreck at Boonville, N.Y. Showing Bed Of Canal. No.14 July 4, 08 [handwritten front caption] (1front) [k0014ac1]
Creator	[unknown]
Subject--front	Disasters Railroad accidents Steam engines coal Railroad freight cars Railroad tracks Canals Embankments Carriages & coaches Animal teams Black & white postcards People Men Women Passengers Hats Trees Shrubs
Description--Front	Black & white picture of the Boonville train wreck of July 4, 1908. A northbound passenger train filled with [presumably] holiday excursionists, collided with a southbound freight train, carrying produce and general goods. There were six fatalities. The image captures the freight train's steam engine and accompanying coal car- derailed, wrecked and lying on the canal embankment. Additional freight cars lay derailed and stacked up, on the top of the canal embankment. Of note in the wreckage, is an early refrigeration car. Railroad personnel and passengers, men and women, dressed in holiday clothing of the period, stand around and atop the wreckage, observing the destruction. The dry canal bed is prominent in the foreground. In the distant background a carriage and team of horses can be seen on the crest of a ridge.
References	see "The Boonville Train Wreck July 4, 1908" retrieved on 10/11/11 from http://www.oneidacountyhistory.org/MomentsInTime/TrainWrecks/Boonville/BoonvilleTrainWreck.asp
Coverage--geographic	Boonville, New York
Date Original	[1904-1918]?
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: Black River 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	2011-10-10
Resource Identifier	k0014ac1.jpg
Format	JPEG
Format [Medium]	Postcards
File Size	125570 Bytes
Checksum	2287537719
Height (of Digital image)	645 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	LBSCI 757, Digital Imaging, Fall 2011: Pete Rohan, Irene Sysak
OCLC number	827337591

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