PBA Galleries

Includes:

• Dinner to Mr. Samuel M. Vauclain, President, The Baldwin Locomotive Works. In recognition of his patriotic services to the United States Government during the Great War. [12] pp. 2 illustrations from photographs. 10x8", color pictorial wrappers.
• Panoramic silver photograph of large guns on rail cars. with faint caption in the negative, "U.S. Railway Artillery.  American Expeditionary forces 1919." (pinholes in corners). 5¼x17").

The first item is a m enu for the dinner honoring the head of Baldwin Locomotive Company at the famous Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. Includes a photograph of the first Pershing Locomotive (some 1500 were built for the U.S. War Department in World War I), and on the front wrapper is a color rendering of a 14-inch Naval Railway Gun on a Baldwin Base. The main course was roast spring lamb.