Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe California Sleeper Service
Creator: Lawrence, George R.
Date: 1905
This photograph shows the interior view of a Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe California Tourist Sleeper Service. The passengers are playing cards and a porter is in the background.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company employees
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1945 and 1955
This black and white photograph shows an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's coach porter and a nurse assisting a passenger onto a train.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company porter
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1955 and 1965
This black and white photograph shows an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's coach porter assisting a passenger with a new hand luggage cart.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company porter
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1965 and 1969
This black and white photograph shows a porter helping a couple with their luggage as they board the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Super Chief passenger train.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's famous passengers--Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
Creator: Erb, Don
Date: Between January 1956 and February 1956
This black and white photograph shows actress and comedian Lucille Ball and her husband actor and musician Desi Arnaz talking to a porter from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company. The couple were promoting their movie "Forever Darling" with a cross country tour, by way of the Santa Fe's Super Chief, to major U.S. cities.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's troop train
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1945
This black and white photograph shows a pullman porter assisting soldiers returning from the South Pacific aboard an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's troop train.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company troop train
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1939 and 1945
This black and white photograph shows a view of a Pullman porter accepting a pair of boots to be polish from a soldier in a sleeping berth aboard an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company military train.

People boarding the El Capitan passenger train
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1955 and 1959
A photograph showing people boarding Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's El Capitan passenger train with assistance from a porter.

Santa Fe courier nurse
Date: Between 1940 and 1949
This black and white photograph shows a Santa Fe courier nurse and a porter assisting a passenger. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company assigned registered nurses, known as couriers, to their passenger trains from the 1930s to the 1960s to attend to the medical needs of passengers. During their cross country travels the nurses, also, assisted with certain administrative duties and errands that required attention.

Santa Fe courier nurse
Creator: Erb, Don
Date: September 1957
This black and white photograph shows a Santa Fe porter and Santa Fe courier nurse assisting a passenger in a wheel chair. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company assigned registered nurses, known as couriers, to their passenger trains from the 1930s to the 1960s to attend to the medical needs of passengers. During their cross country travels the nurses, also, carried out certain administrative duties or errands that required attention.