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Description:: Mr. and Mrs. Kiang stand on the train platform, Mrs. Kiang holding a bouquet of flowers in her hand while Deson and Mrs. Sze stand on the steps of the train above them.
Date:: October 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Southern Pacific Los Angeles area superintendent William H. Whalen, in jacket, light shirt, and light tie, and another man in pinstriped suit and tie with cigar, both wearing hats, standing in front of railroad car
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times articles, "Record-Smashing Run of Streamline Train Tomorrow to Write Railroad History: Covered Wagon Trail Will See Speed Demon: Old and Colorful Chapter in Romance of Transportation to End as Blunt-Nosed Arrow Darts Out Into Night," 27 Oct. 1934: A4; "Streamline Train Here to Make Test Run Test: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company's New Speed Equipment," 20 Oct. 1934: A1; “Tomorrow’s ‘Iron Horse’ Draws Throng: Rail Rocket Off Tonight: Union Pacific’s Streamliner Speedster To Start Sixty-Hour Trip to New York at 10 o’Clock,” 22 Oct. 1934: A2; “Rail Chiefs Ride New Flyer: Streamline Train Here To Make Test Run East: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company’s New Speed Equipment,” 20, Oct. 1934: A1.
Date:: October 22, 1934
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:: Related to Los Angeles Times articles, "Record-Smashing Run of Streamline Train Tomorrow to Write Railroad History: Covered Wagon Trail Will See Speed Demon: Old and Colorful Chapter in Romance of Transportation to End as Blunt-Nosed Arrow Darts Out Into Night," 27 Oct. 1934: A4; "Streamline Train Here to Make Test Run Test: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company's New Speed Equipment," 20 Oct. 1934: A1; “Tomorrow’s ‘Iron Horse’ Draws Throng: Rail Rocket Off Tonight: Union Pacific’s Streamliner Speedster To Start Sixty-Hour Trip to New York at 10 o’Clock,” 22 Oct. 1934: A2; “Rail Chiefs Ride New Flyer: Streamline Train Here To Make Test Run East: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company’s New Speed Equipment,” 20, Oct. 1934: A1.
Date:: October 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times articles, "Record-Smashing Run of Streamline Train Tomorrow to Write Railroad History: Covered Wagon Trail Will See Speed Demon: Old and Colorful Chapter in Romance of Transportation to End as Blunt-Nosed Arrow Darts Out Into Night," 27 Oct. 1934: A4; "Streamline Train Here to Make Test Run Test: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company's New Speed Equipment," 20 Oct. 1934: A1; “Tomorrow’s ‘Iron Horse’ Draws Throng: Rail Rocket Off Tonight: Union Pacific’s Streamliner Speedster To Start Sixty-Hour Trip to New York at 10 o’Clock,” 22 Oct. 1934: A2; “Rail Chiefs Ride New Flyer: Streamline Train Here To Make Test Run East: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company’s New Speed Equipment,” 20, Oct. 1934: A1.
Date:: October 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: About 12 cars of the Southern Pacific "Prosperity Special" train, traveling through fields, photographed from the top of one of the train cars, with man in foreground, bending forward away from camera, letters S.P. visible on car in foreground
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Southern Pacific "Prosperity Special" locomotive, numbered 3687, with about 10 men in foreground on railroad tracks, building in background reading L.W. Stockwell
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two men shaking hands, both in suits and ties, one wearing hat, one holding hat and cigar, with "Prosperity Special" train in background
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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. …
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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