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Objekt 17

Catering wagon

Description

How travelers in earlier times could fortify themselves is illustrated by the elegant food cart. With the help of such mobile stalls, passengers bridged the sometimes long waiting times on the platform or had refreshments handed to them through the train window.

Object description

Place of manufacture unknown, early 20th c.

Sheet iron, colorfully painted

Gift of Dr. Urs and Barbara Burckhardt-Vischer, Basel

Inv. 2008.356.

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