New York Central Railroad photographic car, 1901. Reserved by Detroit Publishing Co. for the use of its photographers as they traveled around the Northeast.
What a fantastic moment captured in 1902 onboard the Delaware Lackawanna Western Railroad. Why all the images of waterfalls on the walls? Perhaps a traveling photographer?
Source: ancientfaces.com
Two women reading in a railroad passenger car, circa 1905.
Interior Pullman Car.
Beveled mirrors, ornate carvings, and polished brass were the hallmarks of travel in a Pullman parlor car, such as the one depicted here from 1893. First-class passengers enjoyed plush swivel seats and could eat their meals in equaling lavish dining cars. The wealthiest Pennsylvanians owned their own luxuriously appointed private cars.
Credit: Courtesy of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
kinda looks similar to the inside of the first class cabins on the Titanic.
Passengers in a first class dining car, 1905
Gray’s Casino on White Lake. Bethel, NY. 1909.
Eugène Trutat - Monte-Carlo, sur la terrasse, avril 1904.
Sailors at the Cliff House, San Francisco 1901 Source: The New York Public Library
“Surf bathers at Stinson Beach, September 1924″. Two bathing beauties watching over a group of children staying at the Dipsea Lodge in Marin County, California.
On our days off, some of us Circus denizens like to visit the beach in summer, to soak up enough sun to last us a year’s worth of nights…