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[1011 N. Perry - Howard House]

Description: Photograph of the front and side of the "Howard House" located at 1011 N. Perry in Palestine, Texas. The house is a one-story, antebellum-style house with Greek revival influence. There are square columns along the front porch and a brick chimney on the side of the house.
Date: 1960~
Partner: Palestine Public Library

[Anderson County Courthouse]

Description: Photograph of the south and west sides of the Anderson County Courthouse, located at 500 N. Church in Palestine, Texas, taken from the corner of N. Church and E. Crawford streets. The three-story building has Classical Revival-style elements including Ionic columns across the front. There is a dome topped with a statue of Lady Justice in the center of the roof.
Date: 1960~
Partner: Palestine Public Library

["Aztec Eagle" departing from Mexico City]

Description: "The Aztec Eagle" train No. 1 northbound, modern streamlined passenger train of the National Railways of Mexico departing from Mexico City on the 802 mile run to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico located on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas. Circa 1960.
Date: 1960~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["Bonehead" Troop Gathers for Cato's Funeral]

Description: Photograph of the "Bonehead Boys" at the funeral of their deceased scout master, Edwin "KOW" Cato. The men are posing in four rows, the front two are kneeling and the back two rows are standing. There is a bus behind them with their troop name "Bonehead Boys" painted across the roof, right above the windows.
Date: 1960
Partner: Childress County Heritage Museum

[Buildings on Avenue A]

Description: Photo of several buildings along Avenue A. Note the mural ad on the side of the one building.
Date: 1960~
Partner: Palestine Public Library

[Caboose at Reagan School]

Description: Photo of the caboose that sits next to the Reagan School on Michaux Street.
Date: 1960~
Partner: Palestine Public Library

["California Zephyr" in California]

Description: The superb Vista-Domed streamliner, "California Zephyr", rolls over Western Pacific rails through Feather River Canyon in California, circa 1960. Mountains and a river are in the background.
Date: 1960~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["California Zephyr" in Colorado]

Description: The famous "California Zephyr" roll through Colorado on Denver and Rio Grande Western Rails, circa 1960. This modern Domeliner traveled a route of 2,532 miles from Chicago to Dan Francisco. The luxury train was jointly operated by the Burlington, Rio Grande and Western Pacific Railroads.
Date: 1960~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Chesapeake and Ohio's "The George Washington"]

Description: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's modern streamliner, "The George Washington" train No. 2, eastbound, leaving Huntington, West Virginia, on a winter night in January 1960.
Date: January 1960
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Clovis, New Mexico depot]

Description: For many years this depot at Clovis, New Mexico was one of the busiest passenger terminals on Santa Fe rails, circa 1960. This was the junction point for passenger trains operating to and from the Texas cities of Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston; also, for the mainline trains operating via Amarillo to and from Chicago and the West Coast.
Date: 1960~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Commuter Train]

Description: Commuter train on the electrified division of the New Haven Railroad between New York and New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1960.
Date: 1960~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

["The Crescent" in the Georgia mountains]

Description: "The Crescent" on w of Southern Railway's deluxe streamliners, crosses the mountains of north Georgia. It carried private room Pullman cars between New York and New Orleans and reclining-seat coaches between Washington D.C. and Atlanta and New Orleans.
Date: 1960~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Engine 183 above the Toltec Gorge]

Description: Rio Grande's engine No. 483 exits from Toltec Tunnel No. 2 on narrow gauge rails between Alamosa and Durango, Colorado. This is above Toltec Gorge with the Garfield Monument located about 100 feet west of the tunnel portal. Rocky cliffs are to the left of the track and a railing is to the right.
Date: 1960~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Engine 488 at Chama, New Mexico Depot]

Description: Engine No. 488. a Mikado type 2-8-2 narrow gauge locomotive, heads Rail Fans' Special train at Chama, New Mexico Depot on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
Date: 1960~
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Firestone Employees at Exhibit]

Description: Photograph of Firestone employees at an exhibit with their families.
Date: 1960
Creator: T.L. Gunn's Studio
Partner: Heritage House Museum
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