Railway employees picnic

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20044136

Description

Heading the rooting section at the women's baseball game, highlight of the barbecue held by 300 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe employees and officers at Swift's camp on Lake Worth, were these three men. Left to right, they are R. O. Shaffer, president of the Texas Rail Joint Company, J. G. Fitzhugh of Galveston, Texas, special Santa Fe representative, and M. M. Killen, Brownwood, Texas, trainmaster. The three are sitting on a bench. Fitzhugh and Killen are shouting. Shaffer is wearing a pinstriped dress shirt, a polka dot necktie and trousers. Fitzhugh is wearing a dress shirt with slightly wider spaced pinstripes and a diagonal-patterned necktie with a tie chain, over darker slacks and a wide leather belt with a metal buckle. Killen is wearing a lightly checkered dress shirt, a diagonal-patterned necktie with a tie chain and dark slacks with a sharp crease. He is holding a baseball.

Archival Date

1940-06-05

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-1173

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Shaffer, R. O.; Fitzhugh, J. G.; Killen, M. M.; Sports spectators; Baseball; Neckties; Lake Worth; Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway; Railroad employees; Texas Rail Joint Company; Picnics