Image / Boxcar ride in France

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Title: Boxcar ride in France
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Cook, R.H
Date Created and/or Issued: 1918
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Luxury on wheels. This is a real American box car that had been taken to France. To ride in one of those in 1918 was better than a Pullman drawing room on an "extra fare" train. Photo taken behind the lines in November 1918.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041807
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1991.
CARL0000045914
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15387
Subject: World War, 1914-1918
Railroad trains
Armed Forces

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