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Description
Shown is a photograph of two salesmen of the National Cash Register Company hoisting up a sunshine girl at the Southern Pacific Railroad Station in Sacramento, California, on January 29, 1925. The Sacramento Chamber of Commerce formed a welcoming committee in 1925 to greet incoming convention delegates and tourists at the Sacramento railroad station. The committee included sunshine girls who donned a uniform of dresses and heart-shaped hats. The back of the photograph indicates that the sunshine girl in the photograph was named Eleanor Posey. A January 31, 1925 publication of The Sacramento Bee includes Eleanor on the committee's list of members paired with a photograph of the committee, in which she can be seen wearing her uniform and carrying the same Sacramento pennant seen in the photograph with the two salesmen. Two days earlier, The Sacramento Bee had published an article entitled "Cash Register Agents Given Reception Here On Arrival From East" that described 500 agents and salesmen of the National Cash Register Company who had been greeted by the committee and "a group of girls outfitted in Summery costumes" who handed out oranges to the visitors.
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