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Title
Railway Express Agency packages loaded on "stream liner" train bound for eastern points, ca.1940
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1940
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 Railway Express Agency packages loaded on "stream liner" train bound for eastern points, ca.1940. A train of locomotive cars can be seen at stretching from the left foreground to the right distance. Along the platform at center, empty wooden carts can be seen.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12125
USC-2-1-1-12278 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43678
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12125
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43678.jpg
Subject
Railroads
Freight and freightage
Railway Express Agency, Inc
Transportation--Railroads--Southern California--Freight loading
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1940
Place
357 Aliso Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
43678 [Accession number]
84-1-2146 [Microfiche number]
CHS-43678 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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