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Pullman compartment cars through trains -- interior of dining cars on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton R.R.

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Pullman compartment cars through trains -- interior of dining cars on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton R.R.

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Print shows two men seated at a table in a dining car on a train being served by an African American porter.
Z6569 U.S. Copyright Office.

Copyrighted 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co. Cin., O.
Library has two impressions, one mounted in a B-size folder (LC-DIG-pga-08398), and one mounted in a C-size folder (LC-DIG-pga-04174).
Stamped and inscribed in ink on verso: Negative in series USZ62-22022.
Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 46.
Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2005.

Dining, Lounge and Observation Cars. By the mid-1880s, dedicated dining cars were a normal part of long-distance trains.

Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.

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01/01/1894
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Strobridge & Co. Lith.
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Library of Congress
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