Promotional photograph from the film Journey By Train
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Object Details
- Created by
- Text Film Corp., American
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Description
- Silver gelatin print from a series of original photographs taken during the production of the 1935 educational short film, "A Journey by Train", produced by the Text Film Corp., Hollywood, CA. This print depicts an outdoor scene of a train yard. Inside the train you can see a train engineer standing at the window. On the tracks you can see another train engineer along with an African American porter holding three suitcases in his hands, with one tucked under his arm. Standing in front of him is a family of four: mother, father, and two children, one boy and one girl. The family is looking up and admiring in the train. The front left corner contains an identification tag within the photograph that reads "A JOURNEY BY TRAIN copyright by TEXT FILM CORP. HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. 101-23".
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- ca. 1935
- Object number
- 2012.46.75.13
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Medium
- photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 8 x 9 5/8 in. (20.3 x 24.4 cm)
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- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Labor
- Photography
- Pullman Porters
- Segregation
- Transportation
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2012.46.75.13
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5e8e0745a-2f6c-43bc-83ac-617432458831
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