# Departure transport: image provenance and limits

Added 22 September 2026. These are contextual images, not photographs of James McPadden's journey.

## Irish jaunting car, approximately 1890–1900

- Local image: `irish-jaunting-car-c1890-1900-loc.jpg`
- Library of Congress item: https://www.loc.gov/item/2002717319/
- Digital identifier: LC-DIG-ppmsc-09947.
- Download: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/ppmsc/09900/09947v.jpg
- Period colour photochrom print; the catalogue dates it approximately 1890–1900.
- Rights advisory: **No known restrictions on publication.** This is the institution's advisory, not a new rights guarantee from this project.
- Depicts an Irish passenger jaunting car, not a farm cart. The location is not identified here as Leitrim. No link to James, his household, driver, possessions or route is established.
- Site treatment: proportional display; no historical reconstruction or inserted figures.

## Limerick railway station, July 1907

- Local image: `limerick-station-july1907-nli.jpg`
- National Library of Ireland catalogue: https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000330828
- Institutional image and date: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/8089570753
- Robert French / Lawrence Collection, L_CAB_09143.
- Copy obtained from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limerick_Railway_Station_Fast_Excursion_to_the_International_Exhibition.jpg
- Institutional Flickr rights: **No known copyright restrictions**; explanation: https://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/
- Taken three years after James's 1904 departure. It illustrates a station on the possible corridor, not proof that he used it, changed trains there or saw its exact 1907 appearance.
- Site treatment: proportional display, no content alterations.

## Queenstown tender passengers, circa 1903

- Local image: `queenstown-tender-c1903-loc.jpg`.
- Library of Congress [catalogue item 00651064](https://www.loc.gov/item/00651064/); stereograph resource [stereo.1s27419](https://www.loc.gov/resource/stereo.1s27419/).
- American Stereoscopic Company, New York, copyright 1903; catalogue title: *Good bye to old Ireland—passengers on tender at Queenstown*.
- [Repository JPEG](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/stereo/1s20000/1s27000/1s27400/1s27419r.jpg). The current site copy was byte-matched to this file on 3 October 2026.
- Rights advisory: **No known restrictions on publication.** Retain Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division credit and the item link; the advisory is not a new license or worldwide guarantee.
- The complete stereo card illustrates the tender process, not James's own boarding, companions or voyage. It does not establish a visit to an office or an exact tender route.
- Site treatment: proportional image display. Embedded production metadata relates to repository digitization, not the date of James's journey or family camera details.

The jaunting-car JPEG was also byte-matched to its repository download on 3 October 2026. These two photographs have individual scoped website/download/current-display assessments; neither clears another photograph by association.

## Railway interpretation

The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland timeline records the Great Southern & Western's purchase of the Waterford, Limerick & Western in 1901: https://www.steamtrainsireland.com/museum-tickets/learning/irish-railway-history

Map sections are storytelling units, not a verified count of railway companies, trains or transfers. No suitable October 1904 service timetable has yet been incorporated. Total travel time, a possible overnight stop and James's actual connections remain unresolved.


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