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Title
Two-panel Southern Pacific Railway advertisement detailing the story of a hypothetical family preparing to take a railway journey, 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 two-panel Southern Pacific Railway advertisement detailing the story of a hypothetical family preparing to take a railway journey, ca.1930. At center, a family of four stands in front of a map of railroad routes. Surrounding this is a story detailing the planning of Sam Taylor's hypothetical trip down the Pacific Coast.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w
17 x 13 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11904
USC-0-1-1-12047
USC-0-1-1-12056 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43639...-43640
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11904
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43639.jpg
Subject
Railroads
Advertising
Family
Vacations
Southern Pacific Railway
Taylor, Sam
Transportation--Railroads--Advertising
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
USA
Source
43640; 43639 [Accession number]
CHS-43640; CHS-43639 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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