Box 1

Scope and Content From the Collection: This album, Trip of Car 705, documents a trip made January 12 to April 5, 1885 to Mexico and the Southwest United States from Baltimore, Maryland by Colonel John L. Thomas. The volume contains approximately 244 original photographs, 10 maps, 47 pages of plates, 16 pages of illustrations, dispatches from 21 cities and towns and includes time table schedules. There are copy negatives of the photographs and also slides of the different bird feather art.