Colonel John L. Thomas album, 1885.

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Colonel John L. Thomas album, 1885.

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This scrapbook, "Trip of Car 705," is of a trip made January 12 to April 5, 1885 to Mexico and the Southwest United States from Baltimore, Maryland by Colonel John L. Thomas. The album consists of approximately 244 original photographs, 10 maps, 47 pages of plates, 16 pages of illustrations, dispatches from 21 cities and towns and includes time table schedules. There are copy negatives of the photographs and also slides of the different bird feather art.

20 linear in.

New Mexico State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 8004466

New Mexico State University

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The album from this collection is trip in 1885 from Baltimore, Maryland to Mexico to California and back to Baltimore. Not much is known Colonel John L. Thomas except that he wrote in correspondence to a publication called The American. From the description of Colonel John L. Thomas album, 1885. (New Mexico State University). WorldCat record id: 70118757 ...