Harry F. Brown Papers

Series I: Glass plate negatives (n.d, 1916-1917, 1921-1922) includes 9 inch x 7 inch and 4 inch x 4.5 inch negatives of both outdoor and indoor railroad electrification equipment in locations that include New Rochelle, New York, Bridgeport, Connecticut and New Haven, Connecticut. Examples of electrification equipment include, anchor bridges, catenary wires, drawbridge catenaries, right of ways, switch generators, telephone switchboards, transformers, and triangular catenaries.

Series II: Photographic prints (Black and White) (n.d., 1930, 1931) includes 5 inch x 4 inch and 3.5 inch x 4.5 inch prints of railroad electrification equipment. Examples of equipment include anchor bridges on both the Harlem River Branch and the Main Line, catenary wires, railroad signals, transformers, and triangular catenary wires. Images were taken in the Bronx, New York, Oak Point, New York and Port Chester, New York. Also included are Bridgeport,Connecticut, Cedar Hill,Connecticut, Cos Cob,Connecticut, Darien, Connecticut, Devon,Connecticut, Greens Farms, Connecticut, Greenwich, Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut, Sound Beach, Connecticut, South Norwalk, Connecticut, Stamford, Connecticut and Westport, Connecticut.

Series III: Flexible negatives (n.d., 1908, 1912-1914, 1919-1921, 1930-1931, 1933) includes 9 inch x 7 inch saftey negatives, and 4.5 inch x 3.5 inch nitrate negatives of railroad electrification equipment. Images of the Cos Cob, Connecticut power plant, New Haven, Connecticut heat plant, and the Nantasket, Massachusetts power station are included among images of catenary construction and the construction of the Milford Bridge in Milford, Connecticut. Also included are images of equipment, such as anchor bridges, catenaries, circuit breakers, electric switch generators, lightening arresters, right of ways, rotaries, signal stations, switchboards, and triangular catenary wires. Images were taken at locations that include, Cos Cob, Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut, and South Norwich, Connecticut; Nantasket, Massachusetts; and Porter, Indiana.

Series IV: 35mm developed film (n.d.) includes two rolls of black and white film with images of electrification equipment, including anchor bridges, catenary wires railroad bridges, and transformers.

Series V: 35mm mounted slides (n.d., 1959, 1964) includes black and white and color images of railroad electrification equipment and a series of images of an unidentified train wreck. Electrification equipment images include anchor bridges on both the Harlem River Branch and the Main Line, busses, catenary wires, multiple unit passenger cars, pantographs, railroad traffic lights, signal towers, signal transfers, transformers, and triangular catenaries. The images were taken in locations that include, New Rochelle, New York; and Bridgeport, Connecticut, Danbury, Connecticut, and Stamford, Connecticut.

The collection is arranged by format, size and photographer's identification number.