Print, Postcard

Name/Title

Print, Postcard

Entry/Object ID

2012.9.26

Description

Photo postcard of Southern Pacific engine #18 hauling a long line of boxcars. A man (engineer?) is leaning out the cab window. There is sagebrush all around, some tress to the right, possibly a building (station or depot?) behind the train, a railroad crossing sign, and low mountains in the background. Black smoke is coming out of the smokestack. Written in pencil on reverse: 26. Black Canyon area. Written in black ink on reverse: N/g train pulling into Laws, 1945. Stamped in teal ink on reverse: Photographed by Walter H. Thrall, Jr.

Collection

W. F. Tommer Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Thrall, Walter H., Jr.

Date made

1945