Henry m. Stanley and party standing on back of train at monterey, california, march 19th, 1891, porters standing at side of car. From his autobiography ([1]) "we now travelled over the states and canada, in a special pullman-car, which had been named 'henry m. Stanley'. It was palatial as we had our own kitchen and cook, a dining car, which, at night was converted into a dormitory, a drawing room with piano, three state-bedrooms and a bathroom". Regarding other people in the image: from "stanley: africa's greatest explorer" by tim jeal ([2]): "a large party came on stanley's american tour, with jephson and sali included, as well as major pond, henry's lecture agent, and pond's wife and her sister. " <snip> "a special pullman car, named "henry m. Stanley" was obtained by pond for the party. ". Date: circa 1891.
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