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Description:: Crowd of men, women, and children on dirt area near Southern Pacific "Prosperity Special" train, showing number 3668, two men standing on top of train
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to 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. …
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “Gen. Higgins Welcomed: World-for-God Move Brings Salvation Army ex-Head to Southland,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 1936: A1.
Date:: September 18, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Teenager Robert Lance relates his journey train-hopping throughout the United States.
Date:: December-January 1935-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker, general, diplomat, and Republican politician who was the 30th vice president of the United States during the Calvin Coolidge administration from 1925 to 1929. This photograph was likely taken during a visit to Los Angeles from September 11-15, 1925, where Dawes was advocating for changes in United States Senate procedures. In this photo, Dawes is seen disembarking from a train.
Date:: [between September 11-15, 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph is very similar to another one of Glenn Cunningham taken by Fred Coffey and captioned "Mile Marauder Arrives," Los Angeles Times, 20 Jun. 1934: A9.
Date:: [June 19, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Coffey, Fred Everett, 1891-1947
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Lou Henry Hoover, on the far left, and Herbert Hoover, on the far right, greet a crowd. they are aboard a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph was likely taken during Herbert Hoover's campaign stop in Los Angeles before embarking on a trip to South America.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to the article, "CITY WILL VIEW NEW TYPE TRAIN: Burlington's Zephyr at Exposition Park Today President Budd Reports on Mountain Climbing Record Maker First to Come Using Short Route," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jun. 1934: A2
Date:: [circa June 22, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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