{"id":73,"date":"2011-09-15T20:31:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T20:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccspecialcollections.wordpress.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:15:15","slug":"are-you-slim-medium-or-stout-the-conductor-will-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2011\/09\/15\/are-you-slim-medium-or-stout-the-conductor-will-decide\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you &#8220;slim,&#8221; &#8220;medium,&#8221; or &#8220;stout?&#8221; The conductor will decide."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2011\/09\/trainticket19172.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76 alignleft\" title=\"trainticket1917\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2011\/09\/trainticket19172.jpg?w=168\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2011\/09\/trainticket19172.jpg 308w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2011\/09\/trainticket19172-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a>This 1917 train ticket from our Denver &amp; Rio Grande Railway file has a hole-punch area for a physical description of the passenger. The conductor would mark whether the passenger was male or female; tall, medium, or short; and slim, medium, or stout. The purpose of this, presumably, was to cut down on ticket-stealing and ticket-transferring, not to humiliate the passenger. One hopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1917 train ticket from our Denver &amp; Rio Grande Railway file has a hole-punch area for a physical description of the passenger. The conductor would mark whether the passenger was male or female; tall, medium, or short; and slim, medium, or stout. The purpose of this, presumably, was to cut down on ticket-stealing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cc-special-collections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-1b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}