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Joseph Harrison Jr. (September 20, 1810—March 27, 1874) was an American mechanical engineer, financier and art collector. He made a fortune building locomotives for Russia, and was decorated by Czar Nicholas I for completing the Saint Petersburg-Moscow Railway. Harrison made important innovations to locomotives and steam boilers, but may be best remembered for the art collection he amassed, that included "supreme icons of American art."

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