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[Pere Marquette Railroad parlor car no. 25] – Historic Print

[Pere Marquette Railroad parlor car no. 25], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Pere Marquette Railroad parlor car no. 25], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Parlor car no. 25 on the Pere Marquette Railroad, a Michigan line reorganized under that name in 1900, shows the upholstered comfort that set parlor cars apart from ordinary coaches. These cars carried an extra fare for their individual armchairs and were used mainly on busier day routes. The Detroit Publishing Company made two nearly identical 8 x 10 inch glass negatives of the car, and the pair came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Negatives are close variants. G 231" on A negative; "dup" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042681. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69760

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