a group of 3 photographs, comprising Main Line on Main Street, North Fork, West Virginia; Mr. and Mrs. Ben Franklin Pope Bid Farewell to Class J Steam Train at Max Meadows; and Retired Section Foreman B. A. Fitzgerald on Porch with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lugar as Train Two Passes, Lithia, each signed and dated by the photographer and annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil and with the photographer's copyright and reproduction rights stamps, numbered 'NW1966,' 'NW 1648,' and 'NW362' in an unidentified hand in ink, on the reverse, matted, framed, 1955-58, printed in 1987 (Steam, Steel & Stars, frontispiece and pp. 71 and 91) (3)

These prints, on double-weight matte-surface paper, are all in generally excellent condition. There is very slight waviness in the paper of the 'Main Line on Main Street' photograph. This is visible only in raking light.
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