Photographic Print 8274
Photographic Print 8274

J. G. Brill Company order 21749 photograph, 1923


Permanent ID:
6002
Date:
1923
Image Description:
42 ft. 5 inch Passenger & Baggage Trail Body for the Service Motor Truck Company contracted by the Gulf, Texas & Western Railway, (Photo #8274, Order #21749--Ordered February 26, 1923, Delivered March 26, 1923), Some of the photographs in the Brill collection provide insight into the social and political climate of the time. Most of the railroads in the southern United States that ordered cars from Brill were still segregated, and this interior view of the car shows a curtain at the center of the car that has "White" printed on it on either side of the aisle.
Inscription:
The J. G. Brill Company
Order 21749
Photo 8274
Address:
Philadelphia
Format:
Photographs