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Physical collections

The Center cares for more than 600,000 archival railroading images in its physical archives, including black-and-white film, color slides, glass plate negatives, and more. See the grid below for details on specific collections.

Digital collections

A selection of images from the Center’s physical holdings have been digitized and made available online through our (external) digital collections portal.

Wallace W. Abbey

  • 1930s–1980s
  • Canada, United States
  • Black-and-white negatives, color slides
  • 31,000+ images

John F. Bjorklund

  • 1950s–2000s
  • Canada, United States
  • Color slides
  • 55,000+ images

Katherine Botkin

  • 1970s-2010s
  • Argentina, China, Romania, South Africa, Syria, Ukraine, United States
  • Color slides
  • 7,800 images

William Botkin

  • 1960s–2010s
  • Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  • Black-and-white negatives, color slides, moving image film
  • 55,000+ images

Keith Bryant

Coming in fall 2026

Kenneth Burbach

  • 1960s-1990s
  • United States
  • Color slides
  • 2,000 images

Shirley Burman

  • 1970s-1990s
  • United States
  • Color slides

Donald W. Furler

  • 1930s-1950s
  • Canada, United States
  • Black-and-white negatives and color slides
  • 6,000+ images

Tom Gildersleeve

Coming in fall 2026

Gordon Glattenberg

Coming in fall 2026

John Gruber

  • 1940s-2010s
  • Canada, United States
  • Black-and-white negatives, color slides, and prints
  • 100,000+ images

Robert A. Hadley

  • 1930s-2000s
  • Canada, United Kingdom, United States
  • Black-and-white negatives
  • 6,618 images

Victor Hand

  • 1950s-2000s
  • Worldwide
  • Black-and-white and color negatives
  • 46,000 images

Ronald C. Hill

  • 1950s-2010s
  • United States, Canada, Europe
  • Color slides, black-and-white negatives
  • 27,000 images

John C. Illman

  • 1946–1993
  • Western United States and western Canada
  • Black-and-white negatives and prints
  • 4,000 images

Perry Frank Johnson

  • 1946–late 1950s
  • United States: Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio
  • Black-and-white contact prints
  • Thousands of images

Kalmbach Media

  • circa 1943-2015
  • United States
  • Ink drawings, watercolor and acrylic paintings
  • 58 images

Leo King

  • 1940s–1990s
  • United States: Alaska, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
  • Black-and-white negatives and color transparencies
  • 6,000+ images

Stan Kistler

  • 1910s–2000s
  • Canada, United States, Mexico
  • Black-and-white negatives and color transparencies
  • 12,000 images

J. Parker Lamb

  • 1940s–2000s
  • Canada, United States
  • Black-and-white negatives, color slides
  • 4,000 images

Jay Lentzner

Coming in fall 2026

Hal Lewis

  • 1940s-2000s
  • Canada, Mexico, United States
  • Black-and-white negatives and color slides
  • 500 images

David T. Mainey

  • 1950s-1990s
  • United States: Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states
  • Black-and-white negatives and color slides
  • 18,000 images

Jim McClellan

Coming in fall 2026

Thomas F. McIlwraith

  • 1960s-2000s
  • United States and Canada
  • Color slides
  • 848 images

Glenn A. Oestreich

  • 1970s to 1990s
  • United States: Upper Midwest and especially Wisconsin
  • Black-and-white prints and negatives and color slides
  • 4,000+ images

Henry Posner III

  • 1970s–2000s
  • Worldwide
  • Black-and-white negatives and color slides
  • 30,000 images

Print Acquisitions

  • circa 1886-1993
  • Worldwide
  • Etchings, lithographs, wood block prints, and photographs
  • 50 images

Ted Rose

  • 1950s-1960s
  • United States, Canada, and Mexico
  • Black-and-white negatives
  • 4,400 images

Jim Shaughnessy

  • 1880s–1990s
  • United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe
  • Black-and-white negatives, color slides, glass plate negatives
  • 60,000+ images

Small collections

Coming in fall 2026

Fred M. Springer

  • 1940s-2000s
  • Worldwide
  • Black-and-white negatives and color slides
  • 58,000 images

Richard Steinheimer

  • 1940s-2000s
  • United States, Europe
  • Black-and-white negatives and prints, and color slides
  • 38,500 images

Women and the American Railroad

  • 1970s-1990s
  • United States
  • Color slides

Robert A. Witbeck

  • 1940s-1950s
  • United States
  • Black-and-white negatives
  • 1,000 images

Karl Zimmermann

  • 1950s-1990s
  • Africa, Europe, North America, South America
  • Black-and-white negatives
  • 17,000+ images