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This is a checklist for the Better Farm Homes train traveling through Kansas. Demonstration trains like this represented an alliance between railroad companies, agricultural scientists, and manufacturers to promote settlement, improve farm management, and market commercial farm products. A typical train had room for lectures, display modern farm machinery, livestock, sleeping quarters, and a dining area. These trains were advertised through posters and newspaper articles. Many people would gather at the local train station waiting for the train to stop. The public was invited to board and then stay for the next half hour or so for demonstrations.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: May 10--22, 1937
Item Number: 226732
Call Number: Demonstration train - oversize
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 226732
Business and Industry - Railroad - Advertising
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Special and excursion trains
Collections - Manuscript
Date - 1930s - 1937
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Form
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Transportation - Railroads - Advertising
Transportation - Railroads - Agricultural development
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Special & excursion trains
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Forms
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