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Title: Union Pacific Railroad: A Brief History
Creator: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Date Created and/or Issued: Original Printing: April, 1946
Sixteenth Printing: March, 1966
Publication Information: [Union Pacific Railroad]
Los Angeles: Occidental College Library, 2008
Contributing Institution: Occidental College Library
Collection: Occidental College Railroading
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: A pamphlet that describes a brief corporate history on the Union Pacific Railroad that includes sections on the transcontinental railroad, Indians, streamliners, and railroad industry.
This pamphlet encourages the reader to believe in the portrayed iconic greatness of the Union Pacific Railroad. As an effective propaganda piece of railroad culture, the pamphlet focuses on attaining a reader's sense of duty to stand by the historic institution of the Union Pacific despite the increased growth of the automobile industry.
Numbered booklet; Some edges are worn. In good condition.
Publication partially scanned.
Type: text
Format: biographies, 30 pages : illustrations
image/jpeg
Extent: 21 x 12.75 cm
Identifier: scllo0006
http://callimachus.org/cdm/ref/collection/p131301coll0/id/89
Language: English
Subject: Railroad, Propaganda, Trains, Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Railroad companies--United States--History
Railroad companies
Promotional materials
Publicity
Source: Occidental College Library.
Relation: Special Collections. John Lloyd-Butler Railroadiana Collection. (scllo)

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