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Title
Drawn advertisement depicting train travel by Southern Pacific Railway, showing two trains at the top, ca.1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a drawn advertisement depicting train travel by Southern Pacific Railway, showing two trains at the top, ca.1930. The advertisement, which emphasizes travel to Chicago from San Francisco, contains six captions beneath the main heading, and the article headings "See 'Mardi Gras' On Your Way to the Coast", "Typically San Franciscan", "Davenport 4000, The Voice of Southern Pacific", "Famous Westerners: The Cascade", "The Owl Drives out on its 11,000th run", "A Department Store of Transportation", and "Dog Derby leads Winter Sports, Tahoe -- Truckee".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
17 x 13 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12032
USC-0-1-1-12184 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43648
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12032
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43648.jpg
Subject
Railroads
Advertising
Vacations
Southern Pacific Railway
Transportation--Railroads--Advertising
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
USA
Source
43648 [Accession number]
CHS-43648 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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