Southern Pacific officials R.E. Kelly, A.M. Merton, and W.H. Whalen with "Prosperity Special" train, Los Angeles, 1922

Item Overview

Title

Southern Pacific officials R.E. Kelly, A.M. Merton, and W.H. Whalen with "Prosperity Special" train, Los Angeles, 1922

Date Created

1922

Date

1922

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, July 1, 1922, Thousands See Giant Engines, “Prosperity Special” Reaches Los Angeles, Leviathans of Rail Brought by Southern Pacific, Will be Used to Haul Trains Over Mountains, Monsters of Rail Here to Serve. Cheered by thousands lining the tracks in Southern California towns as it madeits way into Los Angeles, the Southern Pacific Prosperity Special of twenty new Leviathans of the rails reached the city last night and was parked in the Figueroa-street switch at Exposition Park. …
R.E. Kelly, in suit and tie, shaking hands with W.H. Whalen, in light shirt, tie, and suspenders, with A.M. Merton, in tie and suspenders, hand in pocket, looking on, all holding hats, with railroad train in background

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: R.E. Kelly, A.M. Merton, district road foreman of engineers, and W.H. Whalen, superintendent of the Los Angeles Division of the Southern Pacific.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Southern Pacific Railroad, Prosperity Special

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Whalen, William H., b. ca. 1859
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Kelly, Richard E., b. 1877 or 8
Merton, Alexander M., b. 1879 or 80

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Arrivals & departures--American--California--Los Angeles
People
Transportation
Railroad trains--American--California--Los Angeles