Dinner Party on the Pullman

 

Getty Museum collection, Google Arts & Culture. 1872.

About 127 years ago this week, Agnes Atherton reunited with her father and long separated family in Illinois. She certainly used trains for connecting across the country to her performances over her 30+ year career. Perhaps some of those train rides included a dining car experience like the one above, or shown below from the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.

Getty Museum. 1880.

Shortly after the family reunion in early March 1899, Agnes is said to have gone to Dallas, Texas for an engagement. I haven't found a record or newspaper reference to any performance she had in Texas, but she did appear from 21 March on a multi-week run of vaudeville shows in Minnesota's Twin Cities. By the end of April 1899, Agnes would perform in Buffalo, New York.