(INDUSTRIAL) An album from the American Locomotive Company in Richmond, Virginia, Brooks Works in Dunkirk, New York, and Montreal Locomotive Works, with 46 photographs. The modernist imagery features vast interior spaces crowded with materials and machinery, some with bright light shining over the surfaces. Silver prints, the images measuring 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and one the reverse, mounted recto only, each with a stamped number on mount verso. Small oblong 4to, leather covers, both detached and backstrip largely perished; with a typed plate list identifying the locations and subject of each image. Circa 1950
WITH--A group of 16 industrial photographs, all mounted albumen prints. The group can be divided into two sets, one of which is not identified. The other depicts the gun shop of the Watervliet Arsenal, New York, located on the west bank of the Hudson River (and which is still operational today).
Provenance: The Estate of Richard T. Rosenthal, Philadelphia
The American Locomotive Company (ALCO) was a manufacturer of locomotives, diesel generators, steel, and tanks that operated from 1906-69 (but changed its name to Alco Products in 1955). Brooks Locomotive Works and Montreal Locomotive Works were both merged into ALCO in 1901.
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