Passengers resting in women's lounge, Union Station, Chicago, May 1948

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/c3ed2a6902c39f2415a3ef1df2ed2bdd

Title

Passengers resting in women's lounge, Union Station, Chicago, May 1948

Creator

Bubley, Esther

Date

1948-05

Description

Four women in the women's lounge. One is lying on a couch in the foreground, apparently sleeping. One is sitting crocheting in a chair under a lamp with her back to a pillar. One is sitting reading in a chair under a lamp with her back to the same pillar. In the background is another woman, barely visibile, lying on a couch.
Photograph titles supplied from Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Granger project scrapbook captions.; Selected photographs published in Granger country : a pictorial social history of the Burlington Railroad / edited by Lloyd Lewis and Stanley Pargellis. Boston : Little, Brown, 1949.

Subject

Union Station (Chicago, Ill.)
Waiting rooms
Women travelers

Source

Illinois Digital Heritage Hub

Relation

http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/utils/getthumbnail/collection/nby_rrlife/id/35

Type

image

References

http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_rrlife/id/35

Date

1948-05

Source

Illinois Digital Heritage Hub

Subject

Union Station (Chicago, Ill.)
Waiting rooms
Women travelers

Citation

Bubley, Esther, “Passengers resting in women's lounge, Union Station, Chicago, May 1948,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed September 14, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/15401.

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