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Philadelphian Andrew McCalla Eastwick (1810-1879) was a machinist who became a locomotive builder under the tutelage of Phillip Garrett, a local watchmaker turned manufacturer of steam engines. In 1844, Eastwick partnered with Joseph Harrison, Jr. and Thomas Dekay Winans, two leading American locomo...
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| Collection: | Eastwick Family Letters |
| Collection Number: | 4497 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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0.2 Linear feet 1 box (8 folders) |
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Philadelphian Andrew McCalla Eastwick (1810-1879) was a machinist who became a locomotive builder under the tutelage of Phillip Garrett, a local watchmaker turned manufacturer of steam engines. In 1844, Eastwick partnered with Joseph Harrison, Jr. and Thomas Dekay Winans, two leading American locomotive engineers, and the trio received a three million dollar contract from the Czar of Russia to build locomotives and cars for the first commercial railroad between St. Petersburg and Moscow.
This collection is comprised of 117 original letters, most of which were written by Andrew M. Eastwick to his wife, Lydia James Eastwick in Philadelphia, when he lived in St. Petersburg, Russia, between 1844 and 1851. There are also a few letters from Eastwick to other family members, along with those of other family members writing to Lydia. With the collection is a USB drive containing transcriptions of these letters in a work by the donor titled "Eastwick Letters." Among these transcriptions are two letters, one from 1873 and one from 1879, which do not appear among the originals. |