Otto Perry was an American photographer and railfan

Railfan

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 specializing in railroad photos. Perry worked as a mailman

Mailman

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 in Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

, where he met and became friends with Louis McClure, another noted photographer.

By the time Perry died, his collection contained more than 20,000 photos, from all parts of North America

North America

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. They were donated to the Western History Department of the Denver Public Library

Denver Public Library

The Denver Public Library is the public library of the city of Denver, Colorado in the United States. Its administrative headquarters is on the 7th floor of the Central Library in Downtown Denver. , the library system had 2,519,977 items in its collection, and a library card base of 417,616 local...

 and have been made available for viewing on the internet.

Further reading

• Otto Perry: Master Railroad Photographer (Otto Perry) Colorado Railroad Museum (1982) ISBN: 0918654327
• Catalogue of the Otto C. Perry Memorial Collection of Railroad Photographs (in two volumes), Western History Dept., Denver Public Library, 1977-80.

External links

• Otto C. Perry memorial collection of railroad photographs at the Denver Public Library
  Denver Public Library
  The Denver Public Library is the public library of the city of Denver, Colorado in the United States. Its administrative headquarters is on the 7th floor of the Central Library in Downtown Denver. , the library system had 2,519,977 items in its collection, and a library card base of 417,616 local...
  
  
• Otto Perry's Santa Fe at YouTube
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• Around the Narrow Gauge Circle by Otto Perry, at YouTube
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