[Two women reading in railroad passenger car] – Antique Print
![[Two women reading in railroad passenger car], c1905. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/99/9996c2d497d2-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [Two women reading in railroad passenger car], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Two women sit absorbed in their books inside a railroad passenger car, a quiet scene of leisure in the middle of a journey. The photograph dates to about 1905, when long-distance train travel was a common and comparatively comfortable way to cross the country, and passengers often used the hours for reading, writing, and conversation. The print was copyrighted by the George R. Lawrence Co., a commercial firm that produced many photographic views of American places and everyday life in these years. Its interest lies in how ordinary it looks: it records the settled routine of women's social life on the rails rather than the machinery or the landscape outside.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H60973(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by the George R. Lawrence Co. No. 5368-O. |
| Subjects | Railroad passenger cars--1900-1910. Women--Social life--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 3,815 px · prints to 10 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-192649 |
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