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You are bidding on an original Stereoview/Stereograph SV card, titled: Mt Pisgah Plane, Switch-Back R.R., PA. by Anon-Unknown, card #1, 1870s.
Looking at this Stereoview through a Viewer, is like using Google 3D when looking at a Map.
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Notes:
The Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, also known as the Mauch Chunk and Summit Railroad and occasionally shortened to Mauch Chunk Railway, was a coal-hauling railroad in the mountains of Pennsylvania that was built in 1827 and operated until 1932. It was the second gravity railway constructed in the United States, which was used by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company to transport coal from Summit Hill downhill to the Lehigh canal.
The railway operated on 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge track, and it was not utilized as a common carrier that linked with other railroads. The rail line was laid on top of the company's earlier 9-mile (14 km)-constant-descent-graded wagon road. The railway operated for more than half a century as a tourist attraction after it ceased day-to-day operations as a freight railroad in 1872. The onset of the Great Depression resulted in its eventual closure.
Pennsylvania's first railroad and first anthracite carrier opened on Saturday, May 5th, 1827, when seven cars of coal passed from the Summit Hill mines of the L.C.&N. Company to their canal at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, descending 936 feet (285 m) in the nine-mile (14 km) trip. (ref. wikipedia)
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Size: 4.5" by 7"
Subjects: Historic, Nature, Lehigh Valley, Trees, Mountains, Railroad, Train, People
Photographer/Publisher: Anon - Unknown.
Date: circa 1870's.
Info:
Stereoscopy or Stereoviews have two nearly identical images mounted side by side and were taken by a Stereo Camera. When looked at through a stereo viewer they give a three-dimensional image. Most popular from 1850’s to 1930’s and they usually measure about 3 ½" by 7" (please see images).
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Condition: VG/EX-EX (Edge & corner wear, Staining, Creases, Writing on the back), (please see the images).
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