Vanishing Vistas postcards album
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Title: Vanishing Vistas postcards album
Dates: circa 1950-2000
Collection Number: MS 833
Creator/Collector:
Cox, Lyman
Extent: .67 linear feet
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: These albums contain commercially produced color photographs produced by Lyman Cox and his Vanishing Vistas Company.
Language of Material: English
Open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
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as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Vanishing Vistas postcards album. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Scope and Content of Collection
These albums contain commercially produced color photographs produced by Lyman Cox and his Vanishing Vistas Company.
In Album 102, the photos are arranged in three sections: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande Western,
and Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. The postcards are primarily of diesel locomotives, passenger trains, and scenic vistas.
The first half of Album 103 depicts Amtrak trains around California and the West. The second half of this album are of Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in California.