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1.	[Laura E. Peters diary]	suffrage; woman; Laura E. Peters	Diary kept from 1897 to 1898 by Laura E. Peters about her suffrage work. The diary details Peters' schedule, expenses, and contacts as she traveled the state lecturing on suffrage and organizing local...

2.	'Wreck on the Pengra Pass. (Eugene to Klamath Falls, Ore.). Cattle Car Smashed by Log When Chain Broke On Car Ahead.' Unemployed, Riding `Side Door Pullman', Help in Clearing Wreck. 1933	poverty; art; Oregon; The Great Depression; train	This is a watercolor and ink painting of a 1933 train wreck on the Pengra Pass (Eugene to Klamath Falls, Ore.). A cattle car is smashed by a log when a chain breaks on the car ahead. Some unemployed riding...

3.	[Northern Pacific refrigerator car]	Northern Pacific Railway; Yakima County; Donald, WA; peach industry; car, refrigerator; fruit shipping	Worker loads boxes of peaches stacked on a flatbed truck into a railroad refrigerator car at Donald in Yakima County, Washington. A sign on the refrigerator car reads: Bananas Fruit Dispatch. The second...

4.	[Milwaukee Road club car]	Milwaukee Road; Chicago, Milwaukee Puget Sound Railway; waiter; African American; car, club; card playing; card game	Interior of a Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway club car. Five men are playing cards at a round table. An African American waiter stands beside the table holding a tray with two bottles of ale...

5.	[Milwaukee Road - dining car]	Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway; Milwaukee Road; car, dining; railroad travel	Interior of a dining car on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway.

6.	[Milwaukee Road - dining car]	Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad; railroad travel; car, dining; waiter; African American; apple	A waiter serves apples to two men on a Chicago, Milwaukee an St. Paul Railroad passenger train dining car.

7.	[Milwaukee Road - no. 16 observation car]	Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway; Milwaukee Road; railroad, electric; Rockdale, WA; railroad travel; car, observation	Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway no. 16 observation car at the rear of the train at Rockdale yard at the west portal of the Cascade Tunnel. Passengers sit at the open sides.

8.	[Observation car]	Northern Pacific Railway; car, observation	The rear view of a Northern Pacific Railway observation car somewhere in Washington State.

9.	[Obervation Car Interior]	Northern Pacific Railway; car, observation; chair; wicker	Interior of a Northern Pacific Railway observation car

10.	[Northern Pacific Obsrvation Car]	Northern Pacific Railway; car, observation	Side view of a Northern Pacific Railway observation car

11.	[Northern Pacific Dining Car]	Northern Pacific Railway; railroad travel; dining car; potato; tableware; child	Interior of a Northern Pacific Railway dining car. A little girl prepares to eat a great big baked potato.

12.	Northern Pacific Dining Car	Northern Pacific Railway; railroad travel; dining car; child	Interior of a Northern Pacific Railway dining car

13.	Speeder car at Yacolt	Yacolt, WA; Clark County; Twin Falls Logging Co.; lumber industry; speeder car; railroad, logging	A railroad speeder car with 3 men standing beside it on railroad tracks. A smoke stack for donkey engine is on the car. Wood frame buildings, possibly associated with the Twin Falls Logging Company, are...

14.	[Railroad car refrigeration]	Yakima Valley Fruit Growers Association; Blue X Fruit; Yakima County; Zillah, WA; African American; refrigeration; ice; shipping industry; fruit industry	Worker lifts ice from a freezing tank in an icehouse at Zillah, Washington to use in a railroad refrigeration car for shipping produce from the Yakima Valley.

15.	[Northern Pacific Railway]	Northern Pacific Railway; railroad travel; car, observation; African American; child; telegram; porter, Pullman	Travelers on the Northern Pacific Railway relax in an observation car somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. The observation car porter in the back of the car hands a telegram to a passenger.

16.	Burlington escorted tours : vacations without a car / organized and operated by Burlington Route, Great Northern, Northern Pacific	tourism; railroad travel	Describes various sightseeing railroad tours organized by the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington Route to scenic locations in the West.

17.	Travel near or travel far, you'll find no prettier dining car	Northern Pacific Railway; Harvey W. Wiley; car, dining; food	The back of this advertising card quotes food expert, Dr. Harvey Wiley, on the purity of the food served in the Northern Pacific Railway dining cars.

18.	[Northern Pacific] Dining car service	Northern Pacific Railway; menu; dining-car service; railroad travel	Menu from a dining car on the Northern Pacific Railway

19.	[Northern Pacific - Tacoma shops]	Northern Pacific Railroad; Northern Pacific Railroad Car Shops; South Tacoma, WA; Edison, WA	The Northern Pacific Railroad car shops located in South Tacoma

20.	'Portland, Ore., 1931. The Great Depression. Unemployed Butchering Cow for Food. Car Hidden in Brush on Abandoned Road Overlooking Dairy Farm. Sunday Morning.'	poverty; art; Portland, OR; The Great Depression; cow; unemployment	This is a watercolor and ink painting on paperboard of a cow in foreground being butchered for food. Scene overlooks a dairy farm near Portland, Oregon.