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The Adirondacks Our National Playground by [Poole Brothers; Delaware and Hudson Railway Company]

by [Poole Brothers; Delaware and Hudson Railway Company]

The Adirondacks Our National Playground by [Poole Brothers; Delaware and Hudson Railway Company]

The Adirondacks Our National Playground

by [Poole Brothers; Delaware and Hudson Railway Company]

  • Used
Published by The Delaware & Hudson Company, , The Champlain Transportation Company, The Lake George Steamship Company. c1930.

Full color matching front and rear illustration of mountains, train and steamship. when closed 4 by 9 inches opening to 24 by 12 inches of 18 panels.

Item has age-toned with some handling showing on the outside. Some opening on one seam; no writing.

Only one institutional copy located at the Univ of Chicago listed in OCLC/WorldCat. The Delaware and Hudson Railway, was our country's oldest surviving transportation company, with a corporate existence that spanned 168 years.

What's left of the railroad is now split between Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern.  The D&H began as a canal operation, the vision of early entrepreneurs to transport anthracite coal from northeastern Pennsylvania to the metropolis of New York City. 

The Adirondack Mountains form a massif in northeastern New York with boundaries that correspond roughly to those of Adirondack Park. They cover about 5,000 square miles. The mountains form a roughly circular dome, about 160 miles in diameter and about 1 mile high. The current relief owes much to glaciation.