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Northern Pacific Railway depot employees on V-E Day, Auburn, May 8, 1945
Northern Pacific Railway depot employees on V-E Day, Auburn, May 8, 1945
TitleNorthern Pacific Railway depot employees on V-E Day, Auburn, May 8, 1945
PhotographerMelin, Don
Date1945
CaptionBack room office of Northern Pacific Railway passenger station showing employees at their desks on VE Day.

People in photograph, left to right:
seated behind front table: French Robinson, Stan Isaacson;
in chairs behind them: Ora Sauvageau, unidentified, Delbert Campbell;
Les Gove (seated on a table on left side of photograph, with Walter Schmidtman to the right of him.
Al Shaughnessy is visible behind and to the right of French Robinson's head.
NotesIn 1970 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, the Great Northern Railway Company, the Pacific Coast Railroad Company, and the Northern Pacific Railway Company merged under the name Burlington Northern, Inc. [Note from the Library of Congress Name Authority File.]

Embossed on image: Melin, Auburn.
Sign in image: Office Force, Auburn Depot, N.P. R.R. At Work on V-E Day, May 8, 1945.
Signatures on verso, in various hands: Ora Sauvageau, F.W. Robinson, Al Shaughnessy, Del Campbell, Hope Keogh, W.D. Schmidtman, Terry Daly, H.E. March, H.L. Markley, Stanley E. Isaacson, Susy Reese, W.B. Robinson.

Northern Pacific Railway also known as Northern Pacific Railroad Company. [Note from the Library of Congress Name Authority File.]
Acronyms for Northern Pacific Railway: NPRR, N.P.R.R., NPRY, N.P.R.Y., NPR, N.P.R. [Cataloger's note.]

Source of caption: White River Valley Museum staff.
SubjectsOffice workers--Washington (State)--Auburn
Railroad employees--Washington (State)--Auburn
Offices--Washington (State)--Auburn
Northern Pacific Railway Company--People--Washington (State)--Auburn
Northern Pacific Railway Company--Buildings--Washington (State)--Auburn
Victory celebrations--Washington (State)--Auburn
World War, 1939-1945--Peace--Washington (State)--Auburn
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Washington (State)--Auburn
ClassificationAuburn, WA/Transportation/Railroads
Personal NamesSauvageau, Ora
Robinson, French W.
Shaughnessy, Albert
Campbell, Delbert
Keogh, Hope
Schmidtman, Walter D.
Daly, Terry
March, Howard E.
Marklen, H.L.
Isaacson, Stanley E.
Reese, Susy
Robinson, W.B.
PlacesUnited States--Washington (State)--Auburn
Digital CollectionWhite River Valley Museum Photograph Collection
Image Number25
Ordering InformationTo order a reproduction or inquire about permissions contact: hpittenger@auburnwa.gov. Please cite the Image Number.
RepositoryWhite River Valley Museum (Auburn)
Physical Description1 photographic print: b&w; 8 x 10 in.
TypeImage
Digital Reproduction InformationA photographic print was scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3.
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