Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Loading the Baggage Car
mid 20th century
Smithsonian NMAAHC collection
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A gelatin silver print depicting a black and white image of three men loading baggage on to a train car. A wagon full of suitcases and trunks is in the foreground. A man wearing a dark colored apron, a white shirt, white pants and a porter’s hat is standing on the wagon. He is lifting a suitcase and handing it to another man standing in an open train car behind the wagon. Another man is in the train car watching. Both men in the train car are wearing denim work clothes. Black type centered below the photograph reads “20. Loading the Baggage Car.” The back of the print is blank.
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13
Catalog reference: 2014.63.63.38
