Nostalgia & History > Maryville, PA Shop Men Taken September 22, 1897

Picture 1 is from the website,
 
http://www.marysville150.com/marysville-railroad-shop-men 
 
Picture 1, “Maryville, PA Shop Men Taken September 22, 1897.” 
 

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Picture 2, left portion of picture 1 enlarged.
 

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Picture 3, right portion of picture 1 enlarged



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/22/16 13:50 by flynn.

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I used picture 1 and did a Google photo recognition search.  I copied 2 pictures from the search.   
 
Picture 4 is from the website,
 
http://blog.library.ipswich.qld.gov.au/lh/2010/07/27/ipswich-to-bigges-camp-railroad 
 
Picture 4, “Men lowering the tracks at a cutting between Ipswich and Grandchester – Image courtesy of Picture Ipswich.” 
 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/22/16 13:51 by flynn.

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Picture 5 is from the website,
 
http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com/2014_09_01_archive.html 
 
Picture 5, “Taken in the early part of the twentieth century, a group of six men are working on a handcart along the Lake Shore Electric Railway in Milan, Ohio.     
 

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Picture 6 is a portion of picture 5 enlarged. 
 

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With the 1897 Marysville PA group, I'd suspect many were immigrants, or their hard working sons.  People who made America great.

I cropped picture 6 so the only person in the picture was the man second from the right and labeled it picture 7.
 
Picture 7, man second from the right in picture 6.   
 

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I used picture 7 and did a Google photo identification search and got, Best guess for this image: person.  I changed the best guess to railroad worker and got a hundred or so visually similar images.  I copied three of these pictures. 
 
Picture 8 is from the website,
 
http://www.mailtribune.com/business/20160416/19-highly-successful-people-who-prove-its-never-too-late-to-change-careers
 
Picture 8, “Harland Sanders, better known as Colonel Sanders, was 62 when he franchised Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1952, which he sold for $2 million 12 years later. Before serving up his renowned original recipe, Sanders held several odd jobs including country lawyer, gas station operator, and railroad worker.” 
 

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Picture 9 is from the website,
 
http://www.nonfictionminute.com/the-nonfiction-minute/category/civil-war 
 
Picture 9, “When the Civil War started in 1861, seventeen-year-old Billy enlisted, becoming a Union soldier, scout, and spy. After the war he worked as a civilian guide for the army, fought in the Indian Wars, and earned the nickname Buffalo Bill from Kansas railroad workers amazed by his skill in downing buffalo to provide meat for them. He used that name when he created a show about the Old West that he loved so much—and which was fast disappearing.” 
 

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Picture 10 is from the website,
 
http://la-loupe.over-blog.net/page/1332 
 
Picture 10, “Before Mitchum was two years old, his father, a blue-collar railroad worker, was crushed to death between two goods vans and through much of the Thirties he rode the rods around Depression America as an itinerant labourer, doing some boxing and serving...”
 

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