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Guide to the Ron Ziel Photographic Collection 1874-1996 Control # Z-1

Identifier: aql:437

Description: The Ron Ziel Collection (6,435 photographs, 1874-1996) takes as its major subject the history of the Long Island Rail Road (and to a lesser extent its parent company, the Pennsylvania Railroad); however, the collection also includes many photographs documenting subways, buses, trolley lines and other forms of mass transit in Brooklyn, Queens and suburban Long Island, as well as views of boats, docks, lighthouses, residences and many other subjects relating to the history of Long Island.

Collection : aql:30881; aql:15955

Summary/Description : The Ron Ziel Collection (6,435 photographs, 1874-1996) takes as its major subject the history of the Long Island Rail Road (and to a lesser extent its parent company, the Pennsylvania Railroad); however, the collection also includes many photographs documenting subways, buses, trolley lines and other forms of mass transit in Brooklyn, Queens and suburban Long Island, as well as views of boats, docks, lighthouses, residences and many other subjects relating to the history of Long Island.

Subject : Ziel, Ron, 1939-; Ayling, George G.; Boerckel, Winfield S.; Brainard, George Bradford, 1845-1887; Callan, Fred; Chaney, Charles B.; Dunnet, Robert B.; Elliot, David; Emery, Robert M., 1925-1995; Flattley, Martin; George, Herbert; Hamcke, George; Harrison, Richard J., 1918-; Holman, Fred; Huneke, Arthur J.; Irmisch, George W.; Kohl, Norman; Krause, John; May, Edward L.; Minden, Ed; Morgan, Robert B.; Osborne, James V.; Parkinson, C.V.; Shoemaker, William R.; Slade, William D.; Sommer, Ted; Trede, Harry J.; Viken, Robert; Wettereau, Richard; Votava, George E.; Winslow, Jeffrey; Zahn, Frank G.; Long Island Rail Road; Pennsylvania Railroad; Buses; Railroad cars; Railroads; Steam engines; Street-railroads; Subways

Coverage : Long Island (N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.) Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Suffolk County (N.Y.) Nassau County (N.Y.)

Publisher : Queens Borough Public Library, Publisher

Identifier : aql:437

eadid : Z-1

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Subject:
Ziel, Ron, 1939-; Ayling, George G.; Boerckel, Winfield S.; Brainard, George Bradford, 1845-1887; Callan, Fred; Chaney, Charles B.; Dunnet, Robert B.; Elliot, David; Emery, Robert M., 1925-1995; Flattley, Martin; George, Herbert; Hamcke, George; Harrison, Richard J., 1918-; Holman, Fred; Huneke, Arthur J.; Irmisch, George W.; Kohl, Norman; Krause, John; May, Edward L.; Minden, Ed; Morgan, Robert B.; Osborne, James V.; Parkinson, C.V.; Shoemaker, William R.; Slade, William D.; Sommer, Ted; Trede, Harry J.; Viken, Robert; Wettereau, Richard; Votava, George E.; Winslow, Jeffrey; Zahn, Frank G.; Long Island Rail Road; Pennsylvania Railroad; Buses; Railroad cars; Railroads; Steam engines; Street-railroads; Subways


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