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Passengers seated on a Zephyr's Dome-Parlor observation car

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Repository
LaBudde Special Collections
Member of
J.E. Lynn Railroad Memborabilia Collection
Image Credit
Lawrence S. Williams
Date (Unspecified)
1905-05-06
Filename
umkc_lsc_lynn_photo-010.tif
Notes
1953
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Photographer's stamp on verso: Lawrence S. Williams, Photographer, 411 Maryland Ave., Havertown, PA., Hilltop 6-2263, Neg. #913. Text on inserted sheet with photo: Dome-Parlo-Observation Car of the New Kansas City Zephyr: This is the observation section of the dome-parlor-observation car of the Kansas City Zephyr showing the entrance to one of the train's most outstanding features-- the Vista-Dome. Underneath the dome in this car are washrooms. Beyond that is a five-passenger drawing room and at the end of the passageway is a parlor-car section. The restful cushions are made of foam rubber with upholstery and carpeting in beautiful pastel shades to match.
Extent Of Original
1 photograph : black and white print ; 21 x 26 cm
Genres
Black & white photographs
Gelatin silver prints
Snapshots
Group portraits
Type
photographs
English

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