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Title: J.D. Bush (Delaware Automobile Association) to John J. Raskob
Date(s): 1910-05-10
Contributor(s): Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (correspondent), Delaware Automobile Association (originator), Bush, J. Danforth (Joshua Danforth), 1868-1926 (correspondent)
Description: Account of Raskob's first of many speeding tickets.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: raskob-0581
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Person to person at the ticket counter in Penn Station
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): ConRail (former owner), Sozio, A.F. (photographer), Pennsylvania Railroad (originator)
Description: Typed caption: 'With a Dage TV receiver at her elbow to show what seats, berths or bedrooms are available on all trains going to her destination during a two-week period, prospective passenger at the new Ticket Sales and Service Bureau in Pennsylvania Station, New York can make a quick choice and sales clerk, with the aid of other electronic and mechanical devices, can issue her reservations and tickets in one-fourth the average time formerly required. Note matrix racks for Ticketeer machine...
Show moreTyped caption: 'With a Dage TV receiver at her elbow to show what seats, berths or bedrooms are available on all trains going to her destination during a two-week period, prospective passenger at the new Ticket Sales and Service Bureau in Pennsylvania Station, New York can make a quick choice and sales clerk, with the aid of other electronic and mechanical devices, can issue her reservations and tickets in one-fourth the average time formerly required. Note matrix racks for Ticketeer machine in background.'
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Collection ID: Conrail photographs (Accession 1993.231)
Hagley ID: 1993231_125
Collection: Conrail photographs and films

Title: Where closed circuit television helps in telephone sales
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): ConRail (former owner), Sozio, A.F. (photographer), Pennsylvania Railroad (originator)
Description: Typed caption: 'Telephone sales clerks in the new Ticket Sales and Service Bureau at Pennsylvania Station, New York dial coded numbers to tune in space availability charts on Dage TV receivers in order to tell prospective passengers calling from their homes or offices what types of seats, berths or rooms are still open on trains to their various destinations. Same clerks also answer requests for train and travel information.'
Collection ID: Conrail photographs (Accession 1993.231)
Hagley ID: 1993231_126
Collection: Conrail photographs and films