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| Title | Northern Pacific Railway's Santa Claus train personnel, East Auburn, 1954 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1954 |
| Caption | Northern Pacific Railway sponsored a Christmas party for local children each year during this period. Santa Claus usually arrived aboard a locomotive or other rail equipment. Pictured here are participants and crew on the occasion in 1954.
Left to right: G.R. Nelson (diesel shop foreman), Philip G. Morgan (Special agent, Railroad Police), Waino Hannus (railroad clerk portraying Santa Claus), Benny Ecklere (train conductor), Arthur Pim (brakeman) and Ralph Slaughter (brakeman). |
| Notes | Handwritten on verso: Christmas 1954.
Northern Pacific Railway also known as Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Acronyms for Northern Pacific Railway: NPRR, N.P.R.R., NPRY, N.P.R.Y., NPR, N.P.R.
Source of caption information: White River Valley Museum staff. |
| Subjects | Northern Pacific Railway Company--People--Washington (State)--Auburn
Holidays--Washington (State)--Auburn
Railroad employees--Washington (State)--Auburn |
| Classification | Auburn, WA/Transportation/Railroads |
| Personal Names | Eckler, Benny
Hannus, Waino
Morgan, Phil G.
Nelson, Gus
Pim, Arthur L.
Slaughter, Ralph E. |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Auburn |
| Digital Collection | White River Valley Museum Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 2526 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions contact: amorein@ci.auburn.wa.us. Please cite the Image Number. |
| Repository | White River Valley Museum (Auburn) |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 5 x 7 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | A photographic print was scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color or 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 or 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
