First Streetcar Arrives in Patchogue

Collection: This image is from the A. Noble Chapman Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, polyester negative, interpositive, prints, and digital image.; Image is part of the A. Noble Chapman Photographs

Date: 1911 Material: unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver prints Dimension: 5 x 7 inches (glass plate negative); 4 x 5 (negative); 4 x 5 (interpositive); 4 x 5 (print); 5 x 7 (print); 8 x 10 (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Creator: A. Noble Chapman Identifier: aql:10944 anc-000259 anc-000259.tif

Description: Suffolk Traction streetcars arrived in Patchogue in 1911, delivered via the Long Island Rail Road on flatcars. Here, the first car, (a second-hand vehicle), arrives from the Federal Storage Battery Car Company of New Jersey. Unlike other trolleys, the storage battery cars did not require electrified rails or overhead line equipment.

Title : First Streetcar Arrives in Patchogue

Collection : aql:10776; vital:1

Creator : A. Noble Chapman

Date : 1911

Summary/Description : Suffolk Traction streetcars arrived in Patchogue in 1911, delivered via the Long Island Rail Road on flatcars. Here, the first car, (a second-hand vehicle), arrives from the Federal Storage Battery Car Company of New Jersey. Unlike other trolleys, the storage battery cars did not require electrified rails or overhead line equipment.

Subject : Suffolk Traction Company; Trolley cars; Long Island Rail Road

Relation : This image is from the A. Noble Chapman Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, polyester negative, interpositive, prints, and digital image.; Image is part of the A. Noble Chapman Photographs

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : Long Island Rail Road near Patchogue Station, Patchogue, NY Patchogue (N.Y.) Suffolk County (N.Y.)

Type : glass plate negative; black and white negative; black and white transparency; black and white prints; digital image

Format : unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver prints; 5 x 7 inches (glass plate negative); 4 x 5 (negative); 4 x 5 (interpositive); 4 x 5 (print); 5 x 7 (print); 8 x 10 (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:10944 anc-000259 anc-000259.tif