Postcard

Photograph

Carbon County Museum

2008.1008.1.547

Name/Title

Postcard

Entry/Object ID

2008.1008.1.547

Description

Sepia print. Printed on postcard paper. Advertising card for a Union Pacific locomotive engine. Image at top of a coal fired steam locomotive engine & tender. Below is a chart of the specifications of this engine - "four cylinder simple" "Road Number 3967" "Order No. S-1855". Printed on back in black ink: "POST CARD" "CORRESPONDENCE" "ADDRESS" [dashed square with EKC logo at top around] "PLACE STAMP HERE" Postit note on enclosure [removed 6/5/2010]: "2nd largest engine ever built for U.P." Back badly soiled. Upper & lower right corners bent - emulsion cracked. Thumbtack hole at top center edge. Irregular emulsion; scratched.

Collection

Photograph Collection