Train accident in Mansfield

File name: 08_06_000327

 

Title: Train accident in Mansfield

 

Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)

 

Date created: 1926-05-24

 

Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.

 

Genre: Glass negatives

 

Subjects: Railroad accidents

 

Notes: Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger.; After midnight on Monday, 24 May 1926, The Owl (a midnight express from Boston to New York) collided with a Providence-Lowell freight train in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Freight cars and passenger coaches were strewn over the tracks, the engine and one coach were overturned, and two boxcars were crushed in the crash. (Boston Traveler, 24 May 1926)

 

Collection: Leslie Jones Collection

 

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

 

Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.

 

Preferred citation: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.

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