Promotional photograph from the film Journey By Train: Museum Object and Cultural History
Promotional photograph from the film Journey By Train: Date: ca. 1935. Created by: Text Film Corp., American. Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men.
The object in the museum catalogue
Silver gelatin print from a series of original photographs taken during the production of the 1935 educational short film, "A Journey by Train", produced by the Text Film Corp., Hollywood, CA. This print depicts an African American man dressed as a railway porter, note he is wearing a cap that reads "PORTER". He is standing outside of a railcar with a suitcase in both hands and one resting on the ground by his right foot. The front left corner contains an idenification tag within the photograph that reads "A JOURNEY BY TRAIN copyright by TEXT FILM CORP. HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. 101-34"
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1935
- Created by: Text Film Corp., American
- Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 x 9 5/8 in. (20.3 x 24.4 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Labor
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Pullman Porters
- Topic: Segregation
- Topic: Transportation
- Object number: 2012.46.75.10
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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