- Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Title:
- Catskill Mountains: The Incline Railway
- Creator:
- Rotograph Co. (New York, N. Y.)
- Publisher:
- New York, NY: Rorograph Co.
- Date of Original:
- 1905/1907
- Subject:
- Railroads--Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
Postcards--Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) - Location:
- United States, New York, Greene County, 42.27652, -74.12271
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Postcard (tinted collotype, 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches) titled – Catskill Mountains: The Incline Railway. - The Otis Elevating Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge cable funicular railroad leading to the Catskill Mountain House in Palenville, New York. For the first 64 years of its existence, the Catskill Mountain House was accessible only by a long stagecoach from Catskill Landing on the Hudson. Faced with increased competition, Charles Beach hired the Otis Elevator Company to build a cable funicular railroad straight up the Great Wall of Manitou. Opening on August 7, 1892, the line measured 7,000 ft (2,134 m) long with a rise of 1,630 ft (497 m). No descriptive text on reverse. Postmarked July 10, 1907, Catskill, N.Y. Card number G6478. *Note: This card showing a railway car heading up a mountain is one of many by the Rotograph Company, a major German printer and publisher of postcards founded by Ludwig Knackstedt of Knackstedt & Nather in partnership with Arthur Schwarz of Neue Photographische Gesellschaft (a major bromide photo paper manufacturer). They also took over the National Art Views Co. in 1904 to gain quick access to American views, and republished many of these images under the Rotograph name. Style G cards featured views printed as tinted collotypes (Machine Colored, Chromo printed by Knackstedt & Nather). The images on these cards fades into the tabs, an effect sometimes referred to as vignetting. The cards of this series display the most recognizable style from Rotograph and they were their most popular cards. No text on reverse. Postage affixed: green Franklin one cent stamp.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-487
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-487#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-487/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : col. ill.
- Original Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System
- Rights:
-
