R. R. record [graphic].
Dublin Core
Title
R. R. record [graphic].
Subject
Philanthropy.
Funeral rites & ceremonies.
Railroad construction & maintenance.
Railroad facilities.
Railroad accidents.
Description
Blank membership certificate for employees of the railroad containing a cabinet card portrait of a young man surrounded by thirteen titled views documenting the activities, benefits, and hazards of life with the railroad. Views include clerks working in the "Auditor’s Office"; a meeting in the "Lodge Room"; the "Train Dispatcher’s Office"; surveyors "Surveying and Grading a Railroad"; laborers "Laying Track and Tamping Up Road Red"; a "Freight Train" and "Passenger Train" traveling through the countryside; "A Head End Collision"; "Railroad Shops"; "Wrecking Crew Cleaning Up Wreck"; parlor scene of beneficiary officers "Administering to the Widows and Orphans" showing a widow receiving death benefits in the presence of her children and an elderly parent; railcars "Switching in the Yards"; and individuals gathered in a cemetery for "Burying the Dead." Cabinet card portrait photographed by M. L. Wildermuth, 104 & 106 East Side, Public Square, Wilkes Barre, Pa. Portrait bordered by flags, the American eagle, and a blank entry for death information.
Creator
J. M. Vickroy Co.
Source
Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher
Terre Haute, Indiana: Published by the J. M. Vickroy Co., c1902.
Format
1 print: chromolithograph with 1 gelatin silver on cabinet card mount; 69 x 54 cm.(27 x 21 in.)
Identifier
**GC - Certificates - Occupations [P.2006.16.11]