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[Group Photo Atop a T&P Train]

Description: Copy photo of a group picture of the T&P Fort Worth Roundhouse employees posing on top of train #639. Written below the image are "Fort Worth, Texas 1928 - Mr Gore squatting on Boiler top, second from cab" and "Ed Robinson (-Herbert Gore Collection)."
Date: 1928
Creator: Robinson, Ed
Partner: The Grace Museum

Train bearing Emilio Carranza's body in Austin July 21, 1928

Description: Photograph of a train bearing Emilio Carranza's body as it stops in Austin on its way back to Mexico. From verso: "Emilio Carranza was a famous Mexican 'Ace' who was killed in an accident in New Jersey just after he had taken off for Mexico City where his bride of four months awaited him. His father Sebastian Carranza accompanied the body. At various stops along the way from New York to Mexico, recognition was given the flying ace. In Austin members of state and city governments met the train a… more
Date: July 21, 1928
Creator: Boone's Photo Company
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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