inquiry concerning railroad hammer photo

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If by Museum you mean the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, that 
website is www.vmt.org.  Otherwise you can Google "picture sledge hammer" 
and get plenty of images of sledge hammers.  Maybe someone else can relate a 
modern sledge hammer to one that would have been used in 1840, but I doubt 
that they have changed much since then.

Gordon Hamilton

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>I am looking for a photograph of a sledge hammer from 1840, and was

> wondering if the Museum might have anything of this nature.

> Specifically the type used to hammer spikes into mountains, the kind

> John Henry would have used (to distinguish between a maul). I need it

> as a reference for an art piece my employer, Jason Mortara is working

> on. Do you know where I could find such a photograph?

>

> Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

>

> Thanks for your time,

>

> Eliza Murphy

>

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