Advertisement for Southern Pacific's San Francisco Overland Limited route, [s.d.]

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Title	Advertisement for Southern Pacific's San Francisco Overland Limited route, [s.d.]
Description	Photograph of an advertisement for Southern Pacific's San Francisco Overland Limited route, [s.d.]. A drawing of woman sitting at a boudoir is visible at top. The woman can be seen wearing a dress and looking into a mirror, while a second lady wearing a suit can be seen to the right. Photonegative sleeve reads, "S.P. Lord Thomas J. Logan. Printed".; Advertisement reads, "63 Hours, Chicago To The Golden Gate. 'San Francisco Overland Limited.' Chicago -- San Francisco. -- Straight and true, with arrow-like swiftness, this famous train lays its course for California. It is the choice of travelers of discrimination, offering every refinement of travel comfort: rooms en suite, if desired; club car, barber, valet, shower; ladies' lounge with maid and shower; unsurpassed dining-car service. Follows the historic Overland Route. Across Great Salt Lake by rail, through Nevada's mountain-rimmed basin, over the Sierra Nevada close to Lake Tahoe, down American River Canyon and across central California. Only Southern Pacific offers choice of four routes to and from California. Stop over anywhere. Go one way, return another, on 'Overland Limited', 'Golden State Limited', 'Sunset Limited', or 'The Cascade'. -- Southern Pacific. Four Great Routes. -- Please write your address and name below, tear off and mail it to E.W. Clapp, 310 S. Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, for free, interesting book with illustrations and animated maps, 'How Best to See the Pacific Coast'".
Subject (adlf)	railroad features
Subject (lcsh)	Railroads -- Stations
Subject (corporate name)	Southern Pacific Railroad
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage era	[s.d.]
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 18 x 13 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographs
Accession number	48350
Call number	CHS-48350
Identifying number	unidentified no: TRAN-47
Legacy record ID	chs-m24092
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-48350
Archival file	chs_Volume137/CHS-48350.tiff

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