Skip to main content

Image / Five women standing with a railroad official on the rear of a …

Have a question about this item?

Item information. View source record on contributor's website.

Title
Five women standing with a railroad official on the rear of a Denver & Rio Grande Western car in turn-of-the-century costume, Knott's Berry Farm, ca.1952
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1952
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
Send requests to address or e-mail given
USC Libraries Special Collections
specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of five women standing with a railroad official on the rear of a Denver & Rio Grande Western car in turn-of-the-century costume, Knott's Berry Farm, ca.1952. The women, four of whom are in darkly-colored dresses, are pictured on the end of the train's caboose, the rightmost woman having her ticket punched by the conductor at right.
Originally, the photograph was captioned as "Five women standing with a railroad official on the rear of a stationary train in turn-of-the-century costume, ca.1930".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12112
USC-0-1-1-12265 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43683
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12112
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43683.jpg
Subject
Railroads
Women
Clothing and dress
Knott's Berry Farm (Buena Park, Calif. : Amusement park)
Transportation--Railroads--General
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1952
Place
Buena Park
California
Orange
USA
recreational facilities: Knott's Berry Farm
Source
43683 [Accession number]
CHS-43683 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

About the collections in Calisphere

Learn more about the collections in Calisphere. View our statement on digital primary resources.

Copyright, permissions, and use

If you're wondering about permissions and what you can do with this item, a good starting point is the "rights information" on this page. See our terms of use for more tips.

Share your story

Has Calisphere helped you advance your research, complete a project, or find something meaningful? We'd love to hear about it; please send us a message.

Explore related content on Calisphere: