topic:"Railways" found 1 record - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Pertains to the chinaware used by the Canadian Pacific Railway on affiliated trains, steamships, hotels, restaurants, airlines with focus on history and specific patterns used on ceramics

Contents: Introduction; Chapter 1 - Scope and arrangement of book; Chapter 2 - Research sources; Chapter 3 - Railway; Chapter 4 - Steamships; Chapter 5 - Hotels, resorts and restaurants; Chapter 6 - Airline; Chapter 7 - The evolution of CPR's chinaware logos; Chapter 8 - The scope of chinaware and its movement withing CPR's operations; Chapter 9 - Where did al that chinaware go?; Chapter 10 - Souvenir chinaware; Chapter 11 - Fakes and reproductions; Chapter 12 - Market value; Chapter 13 - Interpreting the individual pattern listing; Chapter 14 - Railway, steamship, hotel and restaurant patterns; Chapter 15 - Affiliated Dominion Atlantic & Quebec Central patterns; Chapter 16 - Airline patterns; Appendix A - Manufacturers and their abbreviation codes; Appendix B - Patterns by manufacturer; Appendix C - Patterns by decade of introduction; Appendix D - Patterns by CPR operations; Appendix E - Hotels, resorts, bungalow camps and rest/tea houses by province; Appendix F - Railway station restaurants by province: 1892, 1907, 1920 & 1956; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index

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