About the Images

All of the images here are in the public domain in the USA, with sources as indicated.

Often the originals are too large to present online. Click (or right-click to download) on each image for a larger (if not as large as possible) version.

The images which serve as links to other documents on this site are described on the "About the Images" pages for those linked documents.

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These are photographs of the LNER 'Peppercorn' A1 class locomotive, No. 60163, named "Tornado," which was completed by the A1 Steam Trust in 2008. As discussed in the page The Past and the Future, it perfectly represent the carrying on of the best of old engineering into the current world. Please note, though, that I have no connection at all with either the A1 Steam Trust or the P2 Locomotive Company. My use of these images does not in any way imply that they endorse (or even know of) my writings and opinions.

These photographs are by Tony Hisgett and are taken from his flickr account. They show Tornado in 2009 at Tyseley. They are licensed by him under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.

Left photo source (his 11th photo of Tornado): https://www.flickr.com/photos/37804979@N00/3668285804/, taken 2009-06-28.

Right photo source (his 9th photo of Tornado): https://www.flickr.com/photos/37804979@N00/3668303588/, taken 2009-06-28.

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This is a letter file from a catalogue of office supplies by the Collier Stationery Co., Keokuk, Iowa (circa 1909). Scan by DMM. This catalogue is online at The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/CollierStationeryCompanyKeokukCirca1909

A letter file isn't necessarily the most common container in which a dossier might have been kept, but there are no standards for this kind of thing and it was the most suggestive freely available image I could find.