Postcard Collection

Black and white photographic postcard depicting the removal of engine 1538 after a train accident/wreck with caption "Removing 1538 From Wreck. MAR.3.07. E. Of Shippensburg, PA. #348". Crane to life engine seein in top left. Many spectators watching the event.\nVerso of #346 postcard addressed to "Miss Kate Grove"\nVerso message transcription: "This big engine butted the other one of the track and upset it. There was immense crowds out to see them clear up the wreck. Them had two steam derricks there. Thanks for the Easter card. Clarence"

Black and white photograph of train wreck. Man and boy standing in foreground posing. Other people in background focusing on train wreck. Caption reads "#547 P.&R. Wreck At C.V. Water Tower, July 20, 07, Shippensburg, PA."\nVerso addressed to: "Miss Katherine E. Grove Pennington New Jersey" Verso message transcription: "Many thanks for card. On the other side you can see part of Mrs. Woods wrecked kitchen and three carloads of coal were dumped at their back door. To the right was their potato patch in which was dumped 13 broken cars. You can see part of one engine. It is crossways of the track. C.L.G." Rector: Post office stamp in ink "TRENTON, N.J. JUL28 730PM 1907"\nVerso: Two partially legible post office ink stamps- right" "SHIPPENSBURG, PA. JUL29 9AM 1907" and left: "PENNINGTON -- JUL30 7-- 1907"