Object Details
- Author
- Ploskonka, Jeffrey
- Subject
- Harris, Robert Riley "Railroad"
- Cumberland Valley Railroad Company
- National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- Office of Protective Services
- Pioneer
- Hall of Rail Transportation
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in TORCH, July 1982
- Summary
- In National Museum of American History's Railroad Hall, Robert "Railroad" Harris of the Guard Force stands beside a train engine that has the name "Pioneer" on one of its wheels. An early passenger locomotive, the "Pioneer," was built in 1851 for the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company of central Pennsylvania.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, Folder: July 1982
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1982
- Standard number
- 82-6750-10 or SIA82-6750-10
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- African Americans
- Engines
- Guard Force
- Locomotives
- Police Force
- Railroads--Trains
- Security
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Trains
- Transportation
- Watchmen
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8844
