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Railroad photograph cars and studios on trains


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Railroad photograph cars and studios on trains
Backmarks
2Backmarks for railroad photograph cars
Photographers
3J.B. Silvis: Photograph car
Contemporary accounts
4Swain & Mote and their photograph car (1871)
5J.B. Silvis provides the services of his photographic car to assist the photographing of a solar eclipse (1878)
6Boston Photo Car Company: Indignant Dads. They Take Issue With the Boston Photo Car on a Question of Propriety (may 1893)

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