Sunday 19 June 2016

Early Photographs of the São Paulo Railway

Railways of Brazil in Postcards and Souvenir Albums

By João Emilio Gerodetti, Carlos Cornejo
This book is available on Google Books here


p80.  Switchyard and workshops of the São Paulo Railway's original São Paulo Station, between Jardim de Luz and Rua da Estação, later renamed Rua Mauá.  This street is seen at the right in the postcard.  The station was inaugurated on February 16, 1867.  That same year the famous photographer Militão Augusto de Azevedo took this picture.