DeForest Douglas Diver railroad photographs, ca. 1870-1950.
Collection Number: 1948
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
DeForest Douglas Diver railroad photographs, ca. 1870-1950.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1948
Abstract:
Original photographs, glass plates and other negatives, and glossy prints, mainly
of the New York, Ontario, and Western Railway, taken by Mr. Diver and others in Delaware,
Madison, Oneida, Oswego, Otsego, and Sullivan Counties, New York.
Creator:
Diver, DeForest Douglas, 1878-1958
Quanitities:
3.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
A collection of DeForest Douglas Diver, 1878-1958, railroad engineer and photographer,
consisting of original photographs, glass plates and other negatives, and glossy prints,
mainly of the New York, Ontario, and Western Railway. Subjects include employee groups,
locomotives, passenger and freight cars, stations at Middletown and elsewhere, roundhouse
and yards at Middleton, flooded and snowbound tracks, construction work and heavy
equipment, the Hawk Mountain tunnel, and various wrecks. Photographs were taken by
Mr. Diver and others at Cadosia, Cooks Falls, Fishs Eddy, Sidney, Delaware County;
Morrisville, Oneida, Randallsville, Solsville, Madison County; Clinton, Oneida County;
Constantia, Fulton, Oswego County; South New Berlin, Otsego County; Callicoon, Ferndale,
Hankins, Hurleyville, Liberty, Summitville, Sullivan County.
Series I. Photograph files | Boxes 1-6 |
Series II. Negatives only | Box7 |
Photographs from the collection have been digitized and are accessible through Cornell
Library's Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/collections/72157621733952250/ .
Photographs from the collection are also accessible through the RMC image portal..
INFORMATION FOR USERS
DeForest Douglas Diver Railroad Photographs, #1948. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Railroad engineer, photographer.
Names:
New York, Ontario, and Western Railway Co
Places:
Walton (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
Sullivan County (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
Otsego County (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
Oswego County (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
Oneida County (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
Madison County (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
Delaware County (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
Subjects:
Families -- New York (State) -- Walton.
Railroads -- Pictorial works.
Railroads -- New York (State)
Railroad stations.
Railroads -- Design and construction.
Railroad accidents.
Hawk Mountain Tunnel.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Photographs
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Class X #55277
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|
(no gl. negative)
|
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #360 |
Builder | Schen. |
Year | 1915 |
Wheels | 2-10-2 |
Fuel | Coal |
Locale | Yards with freight cars |
Class X #55269
(no gl. negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #352 |
Builder | Schen. |
Year | 1915 |
Wheels | 2-10-2 |
Fuel | Coal |
Locale | Yards with building |
Mother Hubbard #771
(no gl. negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #134 |
Builder | Dickson |
Year | 1890 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
Fuel | Coal |
Locale | Railroad trestle with 3 crew |
Mother Hubbard #2509
(no gl. negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #201 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1900 |
Wheels | 2-8-0 |
Fuel | Coal |
Locale | Cadosia Trestle |
[untitled]
(no gl. negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #85 |
Builder | - |
Year | 1897 |
Wheels | - |
Fuel | - |
Locale | Chair car "roundout" |
Mother Hubbard #47072
(no gl. negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #51 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1910 |
Wheels | 0-6-0 |
Fuel | Coal |
Locale | Crew--8 people |
Mother Hubbard, Class C #1130
(no gl. negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #74 |
Builder | Brooks |
Year | 1886 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
Fuel | Coal-wood |
Locale | Turntable |
Mother Hubbard, Class G #1178
(no gl. negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #75 |
Builder | Brooks |
Year | 1886 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
Fuel | Coal-wood |
Locale | Wrecker |
[untitled]
(no gl. negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #139 |
Builder | Dickson |
Year | 1893 |
Wheels | 2-6-2 |
[untitled]
(no gl. negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #139 |
Builder | Dickson |
Year | 1893 |
Wheels | 2-6-2 |
Fuel | Coal |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #227 |
Builder | Brooks |
Year | 1911 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #362 |
Builder | Schen. |
Year | 1915 |
Wheels | 2-10-2 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #78 |
Builder | Brooks |
Year | 1887 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #16 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1898 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #14 [?read: 75] |
Builder | Brooks |
Year | 1887 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #30 |
Builder | Baldwin |
Year | 1871 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #5 |
Builder | Rhode I. |
Year | 1869 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
Water Tower & Mixed Units
Railroad | O&W |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #248 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1901 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
Locale | Middletown, NY |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #303 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1910 |
Wheels | 2-8-0 |
Rebuilt Rome Works, 1904
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #74 |
Builder | Brooks |
Year | 1886 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
Rebuilt from Baldwin #32, 1896, O&M Railroad
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #11 |
Builder | Cooke/Baldwin |
Year | 1896 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
Class X Loco, "Bull Moose"
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #358 |
Builder | Schen. |
Wheels | 2-10-2 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #1 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1896 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #1 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1895 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Locale | Scrap Yard |
Rebuilt #66, Middletown Shop as Inspection Car, 1893
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #26 |
Builder | New York |
Year | 1889 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
NY O&W Railroad Scrapped, 1905
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #103 |
Builder | Rhode Island |
Year | 1873 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
NY O&W Railroad "Franklin"
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #33 |
Builder | Baldwin |
Year | 1871 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #7 |
Builder | Rhode Island |
Year | 1869 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #304 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1910 |
Wheels | 2-8-0 |
NY O&W RR
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #1 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1895 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #51 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1910 |
Wheels | 0-6-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #247 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1903 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
Inspection Car
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #26 |
Builder | NY |
Year | 1889 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
Trestle
Railroad | O&W |
Locale | Cadosia, NY |
Was # 78-2-6-0 Rebuilt
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #49 |
Builder | Rd. Isl. |
Year | 1872 |
Wheels | 0-6-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #41 |
Builder | Baldwin |
Year | 1872 |
Wheels | 4-4-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #105 |
Builder | NY Loco |
Year | 1889 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #143 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1901 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #144 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1901 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #225 |
Builder | Brooks |
Year | 1911 |
Wheels | 4-6-0 |
[untitled]
Railroad | Not O&W |
Rebuilt 2-6-0
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #31 |
Builder | Cooke |
Year | 1903/19 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
Snow Plow #3
Railroad | O&W |
Roundhouse, Location Unknown
(No gl. negative)
Railroad | O&W |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #134 |
Builder | Dickson |
Year | 1890 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
[untitled]
(No negative; discrepancy between proof and cover photo)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #103 |
Builder | Rd. Isl. |
Year | 1873 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
Class X
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #358 |
Builder | Schen. |
Year | 1915 |
Wheels | 2-10-2 |
Duplicate of #22
(No negative)
Class Y
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #401 |
Builder | Schen. |
Year | 1922 |
Wheels | 4-8-2 |
Rods
Railroad | O&W |
Wheels
Railroad | O&W |
[untitled]
Railroad | O&W |
Cab Interior | Gauges |
[untitled]
(Duplicate of #51)
Railroad | O&W |
Cab Interior | Gauges |
Franklin
(Duplicate of #28, no negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #52 |
Builder | Baldwin |
Year | 1871 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
[untitled]
(Duplicate of #26, no negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #26 |
Class Y
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #405 |
Builder | Schen. |
Year | 1923 |
Wheels | 4-8-2 |
[untitled]
(No negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #103 |
Builder | Rd. Isl. |
Year | 1873 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
[untitled]
(Duplicate of #9, no negative)
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #139 |
Builder | Dickson |
Year | 1893 |
Wheels | 2-6-0 |
Class Y
Railroad | O&W |
Engine | #405 |
Builder | Schen. |
Year | 1923 |
Wheels | 4-8-2 |
Railroad Station, So. Unadilla
Railroad | O&W |
Passenger-Freight Station, Rockland
Railroad | O&W |
Station, Guilford
Railroad | O&W |
Station, Rockland
Railroad | O&W |
Passenger Coach #85
Railroad | O&W |
Passenger Coach #86
Railroad | O&W |
Passenger Coach #86
Railroad | O&W |
Passenger Coach, Interior
Railroad | O&W |
Passenger Train Wreck--Two People
Double Header--Snow Scene
Mixed Train, Railroad Bridge
Station, Milk Train Pick-up
Roundhouse & 23 Shopmen
Locomotive, Coming Around the Bend
Crossing & Two Freight Cars
Railroad Crossing, Three Tracks
Crossing & Two Freight Cars
Repair Shop & Two Men
Locomotive Wreck, Frame Remains
Locomotive Wreck, Water Tank
Trucks (Rt. Side Cable)
Trucks (End View)
Trucks (Left Side)
(No negative)
Trucks (Left Side, Building View)
(No negative)
Grade Crossing & Track Workers
Grade Crossing, Cameraman, Horse & Buggy
Country Road and Crossing
Railroad Shops and Two Workers
Roadhouse and Eight Locos
Roadhouse Workers and Transfer Table
Railroad Trestle (Modern)
Railroad Trestle (Old)
Railroad Trestle (With Man)
Railroad Track, Curve and Flat Cars
Wrecked Bridge & Coal Hoppers
Wrecked Bridge & Coal Cars
Wrecked Bridge & Coal Cars
Wrecked Bridge & O&W Car
Railroad Trestle
Railroad Trestle (High)
Rural Track Scene 2
Rural Track Scene
Railroad Crossing with Man
Rural Track Scene 3
Track Workers (6)
Track Plotting (Two Men)
Railroad Track Along River
Repairing Trestle
Repairing Trestle 2
Watchman's Shed & Two Tracks
Rural Crossing
Coal Storage Yard, Middletown
Track and Bridge
Rural Scene
Railroad Scene
Engine #1 and Scrap
Engine and Wreck
Railroad Scene Along Hudson River, Coal Cars
Railroad Trestle for Coal Loading; Oswego, New York
Coal Loading and Ships; Oswego, NY
Coal Loading with Small Loco; Oswego, NY
Railroad Crossing, Rural Scene
Railroad Trestle, Carbondale (Looking North)
Railroad Yards; O&W Spur; Maybrook Yards, NYNH&H
Railroad Tracks (2) & Crossing; Shed
Railroad Crossing & Hand-Car Handle
Railroad Crossing & Hand-Car #2
More Track Workers
Track Along River
River Road and Railroad Track
(Duplicate of 5/23)
More H Street With Circus Sign
Hurleyville Street Scene
Hurleyville Street
Old House
(Glass negative only)
Old House With People
Freight Ship Pueblo
*No 5/F listed
Locomotives 54-55-56 and Crews
Loco 227 & Passenger Train
Work Train at Clinton, NY
Work Train with Shay Loco?
Cornfield Meet
Loco 256 & Crew
Loco 153 & Workmen
Unknown Loco & Caboose 8146
Railroad Station; Middletown, NY
D&H Canal; Summitville, NY
Tender 254 and a bunch of men
Train Wreck
Train Wreck
Railroad Yards, O&W; Middletown, NY?
Inspection Car #3
Inspection Car #20
Train 32, Loco 172 & Crew & Octagon Water Tower
Locomotive & Crew
Loco #3 and Two Wooden Coaches
Loco 14, Crew & Watertower
Loco 42, Passenger Train, Pat Diver; Weehawken, N.J.
Loco 204
Loco 457
Loco 360
Loco 362
Loco 69 & Engineer
Passenger Coach, Wooden #25
Diesel 321, Wreck
Inspection Car #38
Diesel 117
Diesel 117
Coach Combination #802
Brill Car
Diesel 103
Train Wreck
Train Wreck
More Train Wreck
Wreck
Wreck Loco 140
Wreck Loco 161
Wreck
Wreck
Wreck
Wreck, Boiler Explosion
Gravity Railroad; Honsdale, PA; September, 1899
untitled (White fence with train tracks in background)
[Glass neg. only]
untitled (Bridge)
[Glass neg. only]
untitled (White fence with train tracks in background, train approaching)
[Glass neg. only]
untitled (White fence with train tracks in background, train approaching)
[Glass neg. only]
untitled (Photographed painting of four men)
[Glass neg. only]
untitled (Record of train dimensions, letterhead; American Locomotive Co.)
[Glass neg. only]
untitled (Photograph of award presented to John M. Wilson on 12/26/1897)
[Glass neg. only]
Negatives
Santa Fe type Class X, Middletown water column in foreground
Eng. 352, 2-10-2
glass
Order card for NYO&W Class Y mountain type engine
Eng. 401-410, 4-8-2
glass
Pop Weehawker, DeForest (Pat) Diver, 1
glass
Canal towpath, Summitville, N.Y., seventeen mile level at Summitville, N.Y.
glass
Minnewaska Road (3 glass plates)
glass
Unidentified (2 glass plates)
glass
Two Negatives
Camelback Dickson, Sam St. John, Bob Oles "Dichen" at Northfield Tunnel
Eng. 151, 2-8-0
film
Harvey and Lozier on inspection
Eng. #26
film
Possibly Sidney Station
film
Mayfield Yard Shop buildings, Mayfield, Pa.
film
Box cars, furniture & auto cars [wreck] (2 negs & 2 prints)
9200-9751
film
Camelback Mogul with baggage, RPO, & coach on trestle
Eng. 246, 2-6-0
film
Trestle (2 negs.)
film
Five views, type Sante Fe, brand new 1916 (5 negs.)
Eng. 351, 2-10-2
film
Shop crew, locomotive shop, Middletown, N.Y. (8 negs.)
film
Cadosia, N.Y. yards, coal storage, trestle (3 negs.)
film
Mogul type Camelback
Eng. 274, 2-6-0
film
Wreck at Borden's condensed milk plant (2 negs.)
film
Switching milk cars on New Berlin Branch?
Engine 217
film
Northfield Tunnel portal
film
Scenes along the right-of-way and the D&H Canal (4 negs.)
film
Steam derrick #1
film
Three Negatives
Scene on Scranton Division near Orson, Pa. cut where heavy drifts of snow accumulated
to be plowed out
film
Orson, Pa. double tracked with siding going to ice house
film
Orson, Pa. looking northeast toward creamery and ice house
film
Steam derrick #2 and trailer flat (2 negs.)
film
Coaling tower at Mayfield Yard, Mayfield, PA. and ash pit
film
Cadosia Station and tracks, Cadosia, N.Y.
film
Unidentified (32 negs.)
film