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Title	Southwest Iowa welcome for Friendship train
Newspaper	News Advertiser (Creston, Iowa)
Date Original	1948-02-19
Description	Image of Abraham Lincoln Friendship train accompanies article.
Note	Caption reads: The Abraham Lincoln Friendship Train, which stopped in Creston last Friday to collect two carloads of wheat to help feed the hungry in war-ravaged European countries, is shown as it prepared to leave the Burlington station. Part of the crowd which attended the welcoming ceremonies in the depot here are shown on the platform as the train gets ready to leave. The two freight cars at the right are loaded with wheat purchased in South Dakota with money contributed in this area to the Farm Bureau-sponsored Christian Christmas campaign. To the left is a decorated car containing sugar donated in Nebraska, with the business car carrying the party accompanying the train at the extreme left.—News Advertiser photo.
Topical Subject (LCTGM)	Food relief
Topical Subject (LCSH)	Friendship Food Train
Topic	Friendship train
Subject	Friendship Train
Geographic Subject	United States -- Iowa -- Union County -- Creston
Chronological Subject	1940-1950
Type	Text Clippings Still Image
Type (DCMIType)	Still image Text
Type (AAT)	Clippings (Information artifacts)
Type (IMT)	jpeg
Digital Format	image/jpeg
Digital Collection	World War II Iowa Press Clippings
Contributing Institution	State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City
Rights Management	The digital image may be used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this file is permitted without written permission of the State Historical Society of Iowa.
Height (cm)	1 clipping : b&w ; 8 x 21 cm
Width (cm)	1 clipping : b&w ; 8 x 21 cm
Digitization Specifications	Master image scanned with Ricoh MP C3000 as a JPEG at 600 ppi.
Date Digital	2009-10-20
Theme	World War II
Language	eng
Full Text	News Advortrser Creston. Iowa FEB T9 1MB Southwest Iowa Welcome for Friendship The Abraham Lincoln Friendship Train, which stopped in Creston last Friday to collect two carloads of wheat to help feed the hungry in war-ravaged European countries, is shown as it prepared to leave the Burlington station. Part of the crowd which attended the welcoming ceremonies in the depot here are shown on the platform as the train gets ready to leave. The two freight cars at the right ;tre loaded with wheat purchased in South Dakota with money contributed in^his area to the Farm 0ure?u-sponsored Christian Christmas campaign. To the left is a decorated car containing sugar donated in NebrajRa, with the business car carrying the party accompanying the train ff the extreme left.—News Advertiser photo. ^^

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