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Description
Photograph of an advertisement for Southern Pacific's San Francisco Overland Limited route, [s.d.]. A drawing of woman sitting at a boudoir is visible at top. The woman can be seen wearing a dress and looking into a mirror, while a second lady wearing a suit can be seen to the right. Photonegative sleeve reads, "S.P. Lord Thomas J. Logan. Printed". Advertisement reads, "63 Hours, Chicago To The Golden Gate. 'San Francisco Overland Limited.' Chicago -- San Francisco. -- Straight and true, with arrow-like swiftness, this famous train lays its course for California. It is the choice of travelers of discrimination, offering every refinement of travel comfort: rooms en suite, if desired club car, barber, valet, shower ladies' lounge with maid and shower unsurpassed dining-car service. Follows the historic Overland Route. Across Great Salt Lake by rail, through Nevada's mountain-rimmed basin, over the Sierra Nevada close to Lake Tahoe, down American River Canyon and across central California. Only Southern Pacific offers choice of four routes to and from California. Stop over anywhere. Go one way, return another, on 'Overland Limited', 'Golden State Limited', 'Sunset Limited', or 'The Cascade'. -- Southern Pacific. Four Great Routes. -- Please write your address and name below, tear off and mail it to E.W. Clapp, 310 S. Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, for free, interesting book with illustrations and animated maps, 'How Best to See the Pacific Coast'".
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image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 18 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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